By Nelson A. King
WASHINGTON, Jun 30, CMC – Caribbean immigration advocates and legislators Tuesday welcomed a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) upholding birthright citizenship for Caribbean and other immigrants.
In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS rejected US President Donald Trump’s attempt to strip birthright citizenship from children born in the US through a 2025 Executive Order.
A majority of the justices reaffirmed the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantee that citizenship is determined by birth on US soil, not by the immigration status of a child’s parents.
The 14th Amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Trump’s executive order sought to prohibit children born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign residents from automatically becoming US citizens.
“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights, to freely participate in our political community,” said Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., writing for the majority, “The framers of the 14th Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’
“We keep that promise today,” he added.
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