Fasten Your Seatbelts! Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Birthright Citizenship Cases
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Thursday in cases raising the issue of whether President Trump may end birthright citizenship by executive order and the scope of injunctions that lower courts may enter to halt implementation of the order. Amy Howe on SCOTUSBlog offers much background about the issues in the case.
As we have to keep up on the blog, many commentators have a lot to say about President Trump” efforts.
Here are a couple more sources:
Ending birthright citizenship for children born on U.S. soil to unauthorized immigrants or certain other non-citizens would have a contrary result from its stated aim of reducing the unauthorized immigrant population. New estimates from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and Penn State’s Population Research Institute demonstrate how repeal would significantly swell the size of the unauthorized population—now and for generations to come. The new projections show that ending birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children with parents who are either unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders (or a combination of the two) would increase the unauthorized population by an additional 2.7 million by 2045 and by 5.4 million by 2075.
In Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court, Jean Lantz Reisz for The Conversation considers the issues before the Supreme Court. It is complicated.
KJ
UPDATE (May 14): See Citizenship at the Supreme Court Tomorrow