Trump says he will 'take care' of birthright citizenship after Supreme Court rejects bid to end policy
WASHINGTON, DC: Donald Trump has signaled he will not let the Supreme Court have the final word on birthright citizenship, saying he will “take care” of the issue despite the setback.
The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, June 30, rejected the President’s bid to end the 150-year-old policy, ruling that babies born in the United States have a constitutional right to citizenship. In a 6-3 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts affirmed that children born in the United States to parents who are “unlawfully or temporarily present” are “citizens at birth” under the 14th Amendment.
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President Trump renewed his push to end birthright citizenship and criticized the Supreme Court after it struck down his attempt to eliminate the practice.
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Trump had sought to restrict birthright citizenship through an executive order, arguing that children born to undocumented immigrants and certain temporary visitors were not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” under the 14th Amendment and therefore not entitled to automatic US citizenship.
The President was speaking at the dedication ceremony for the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library on Wednesday, July 1, when he criticized the Supreme Court’s handling of birthright citizenship, while also praising recent rulings he said restored presidential authority and reinforced a merit-based system.
Trump maintained that the court got birthright citizenship wrong but said he was confident the issue would ultimately be resolved.
“We’ll take care of the birthright citizenship because that was not meant for rich people from other countries. It was meant for the babies of slaves,” he stated.
“If you look at it, it was a month after the Civil War ended that it went through. That’s because it was meant for the babies of slaves. It wasn’t meant for rich people from China. They came over in Gulfstreams.”
“I believe, no, I know they got it wrong, but that’s okay,” Trump added, before hailing a recent Supreme Court ruling that he said restored significant authority to the presidency.
Trump calls ruling ‘too bad for our country’
The President previously denounced the Supreme Court ruling as “too bad for our country,” saying Congress should now take up the matter legislatively as another avenue to keep the issue alive.
“No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“They will have my Complete and Total Support!” he continued.
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Vice President JD Vance also criticised the ruling as a “major mistake,” saying, “This was a very disappointing ruling from the Supreme Court. We respect it, but we also think that it was a major, major mistake.”
“One of the things that it might invite, Laura, is people to come here quite literally on a vacation, give birth, and then all of a sudden the child and their family have the full benefits of American citizenship,” Vance told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
“It’s just a preposterous ruling, and the absurdity of that outcome suggests why the Supreme Court should have gone the other way,” he added.
