The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow Tuesday to the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, but less than an hour after the justices handed down their decision, President Donald Trump was already musing on how to sidestep the court’s ruling.
“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
“No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!”
Enshrined in the U.S. Constitution under the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship grants all people born in the United States or its territories full U.S. citizenship, regardless of their parents’ citizenship status. Trump, with the strong support of his White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, has long targeted birthright citizenship in an effort to see it overturned as part of his broader immigration crackdown agenda.
In his attempts to argue on behalf of eliminating the constitutional right, Trump has falsely claimed on numerous occasions that the United States was the only country to enjoy such a right, despite dozens of countries having near-identical rights, including the United States’ neighbors Canada and Mexico.
