Supreme Court limits national orders, but the fate of Trump Birdright Citizenship order unclear

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

Washington (AP) – A divided Supreme Court On Friday, individual judges judged the authority to grant national orders, but the decision unclearly showed the fate of President Donald Trump’s restrictions birthright citizenship.

The result was a victory for the Republican president, who complained about individual judges who vomit obstacles for his agenda.

But a conservative majority opened the possibility that citizenship citizenship changes could be blocked nationally. The order of Trump would deny citizenship of children born in the US of people who are illegal in the country.

Birthright citizenship automatically makes Everyone born in the United States An American citizen, including children who were illegally born of mothers in the country. The law was recorded shortly after the civil war The 14th amendment of the Constitution.

In a remarkable decision of the Supreme Court from 1898, United States against Wong Kim Ark, the court ruled that the only children who did not automatically receive American citizenship in being born on American soil were the children of diplomats who are faithful to another government; enemies present in the US during hostile occupation; Those born on foreign ships; And those born of members of sovereine Indian tribes.

The US is one of the approximately 30 countries where the citizenship of the birthright – the principle of Jus Soli or “Right of the soil” is applied. Most are in America and Canada and Mexico are among them.

Trump and his supporters have argued that there must be more difficult standards to become an American citizen, that he called “an invaluable and in -depth gift” in the executive order that he signed on his first day.

The Trump government has claimed that children of non -citizens are not “Subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, an expression used in the amendment, and therefore has no right to citizenship.

But states, immigrants and law groups that have sued to block the executive order have accused the administration of remembering the broader understanding of the citizenship of the birthright that has been accepted since the approval of the amendment.

Judges are uniform ruled against the government.