{"id":3509,"date":"2025-05-14T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:48:51","slug":"fighting-for-birthright-citizenship-with-or-without-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"Fighting for Birthright Citizenship, With or Without the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As the Supreme<\/span> Court weighs whether to allow the Trump administration to massively restrict birthright citizenship, Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is attempting to use Congress\u2019s power of the purse to block the administration\u2019s attack on constitutionally protected rights.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In January, Trump signed Executive Order 14160<\/a>, which would prevent children born in the United States and its territories from automatically becoming U.S. citizens if their parents are undocumented immigrants or on a temporary visa, such as a work or student visa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s order was immediately blocked by lower courts on the basis of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship for \u201call persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the case Thursday, Ramirez told The Intercept she will introduce a bill prohibiting the use of federal funds to carry out Trump\u2019s executive order and reaffirming birthright citizenship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This issue is personal for Ramirez, who is the only member of Congress born to parents who were undocumented at the time of her birth.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother and father fled poverty in Guatemala, and my mother was pregnant with me when she came to this country, and I was born in Cook County Hospital in the city of Chicago. I still live in the same community,\u201d said Ramirez. \u201cThe idea that [Trump] would call to question who\u2019s American and who\u2019s not \u2014 it\u2019s absolutely, very personal to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramirez said it\u2019s clear that Trump\u2019s executive order isn\u2019t about immigration, it\u2019s about upholding white supremacy \u2014 a fact further evidenced by his administration\u2019s move to end temporary status for Afghan and Haitian immigrants, then immediately offer refugee status to white South Africans<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty blatant that this is an attack that is seeded on white supremacy and racism,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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