nationwide injunction against President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. “We were proud to stand together to defend birthright citizenship and the rule of law at the US Supreme Court, “said the coalition in a joint statement, noting that “for 127 years, the law has been clear: if you are born in this country, you are a citizen of the United States.

“Administrations of both parties have consistently respected that right ever since. As every court to have considered the policy agrees, the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship is patently unconstitutional. “The Trump administration’s argument before the Supreme Court , that the president should be permitted to strip American citizenship from people based solely on the state in which they happen to be born, would upend settled law and produce widespread chaos and disruption,” they said in their statement.
In January, Caribbean immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration over its executive order that seeks to strip certain babies born in the United States of their US citizenship. The case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), State Democracy Defenders Fund and Legal Defense Fund on behalf of organisations with Caribbean and other members whose babies born on US soil will be denied citizenship under the order. (Jamaica Gleaner)