‘My child will be stateless’: Trump’s plans threaten to leave a generation of children without nationality
The executive order, temporarily blocked by a judge, prevents asylum seekers from registering their children in the United States, and they are also unable to do so in their countries of origin, from which they fled
As expected, a judge has temporarily blocked the executive order that sought to eliminate birthright citizenship, ruling it “unconstitutional.” Despite Donald Trump’s announcement weeks before his inauguration that he would take this action, many experts doubted he would follow through, given that it directly defies the U.S. Constitution, which has guaranteed this right under the 14th Amendment since 1868. However, stripping children of this right based on the immigration status of their parents was one of the first executive orders signed by the tycoon.
