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struggle4progress

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Sun Jun 8, 2025, 10:45 PM Jun 8

Trump v Babies [View all]

By Monica Morales-Garcia
Jun 8, 2025

The day President Donald Trump returned for his second term at the White House, he signed an executive order redefining Birthright Citizenship. The order argued that children born in the United States are citizens only if they have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.

A day later, five pregnant women filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that the order is unconstitutional ...

The women and their litigation team, Asylum Seeker Advocate Project (ASAP), CASA, and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) are fighting to protect the rights of all children born in the United States. And for Mónica, as an asylum seeker with no country to return to, without birthright citizenship, her baby could be born stateless ...

https://www.latinousa.org/2025/06/08/trumpvbabies/

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