Trump Weighs In on Supreme Court Case Involving Birthright Citizenship

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The president has argued that birthright citizenship was meant to grant citizenship to the children of enslaved people after the Civil War.

President Donald Trump on Thursday morning weighed in on the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments in a case involving his order to limit birthright citizenship, arguing that the current law is being exploited.

Earlier this year, Trump issued an executive order to limit birthright citizenship, which was halted by several federal judges. The case is now in the hands of the Supreme Court after the administration submitted an emergency appeal to the highest court.

โ€œBig case today in the United States Supreme Court. Birthright Citizenship was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent Citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them, all the time laughing at the โ€˜SUCKERSโ€™ that we are!โ€ Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.

He said the United States โ€œis the only Country in the World that does this, for what reason, nobody knowsโ€”But the drug cartels love it!โ€

Going further, Trump said that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which was ratified in 1868 and three years after the end of the Civil War, was designed to provide citizenship to children born to enslaved people.

โ€œRemember, it all started right after the Civil War ended, it had nothing to do with current day Immigration Policy!โ€ Trump wrote.

The first sentence of the Constitutionโ€™s 14th Amendment reads: โ€œAll 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.โ€

It and the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime, were ratified about a decade after the Supreme Courtโ€™s Dred Scott decision. That decision upheld slavery in U.S. territories and states while denying that black people could be considered citizens.

On his first day in office, Trump issued an order that made reference to the Dred Scott case, with the White House stipulating in a statement that the 14th Amendment โ€œhas never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.โ€

Byย Jack Phillips

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