Trump on US Citizenship: On his first day as president Donald Trump put his signature on an executive order that would block automatic US citizen rights for children born in America despite not having American parents.
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Trump on US Citizenship Laws
Trump started a legal battle when he signed the executive order which challenged the 127-year-old constitutional amendment that gives U.S. citizenship to birth children.
No one truly knows what adjustments the Trump team will implement but one focus stands clear which Trump wants to stop illegal immigration to the United States through its southern border with Mexico.
Temporary H1B and L1 visa holders from India already face changes to their living situation.
New US Citizenship Laws Caused The C-Section Rush
New US Citizenship Laws: American medical professionals report that doctors are seeing a growing number of pregnant Indian women from visa programs asking for C-sections to end their pregnancies before Trump’s policy starts.
People are rushing their births because US citizenship goes to only those children born before February 20 when the new anti-immigration rule starts. The condition is that each offspring must have an existing US citizen or Green Card holder parent to qualify. The government sends them home at age 21 when both parents remain foreign citizens.
According to Dr SD Roma from New Jersey a report in The Times of India showed most expecting moms asked for caesareans when they were in their last two months of pregnancy.
A wife and husband planned to start premature labor at seven months of pregnancy. That patient won’t deliver her baby until March according to her statement to the publication.
According to Dr SG Mukkala who is an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Texas he warns couples about the potential risks related to premature delivery. Over the past two days I talked with 15 to 20 expecting parents about this subject.
Why The Panic For Indians?
The key issue here is that many Indians in America on H1B or L1 visas totaling lakhs thought they could stay decades while their US-born children would automatically gain citizenship. Now this window of opportunity is gradually disappearing.
While Green Card holders still have the right to create American citizens with their children the number of people waiting to obtain Green Cards remains very high.
A million Indians hold places on this waiting list with unknown processing times according to the latest reports. The new immigration rules will force children of Indian work visa holders either to leave the US voluntarily or apply for formal entry permits.
The whole family system will suffer because parents will willingly take their children back to their home. Trump states he wants to keep families united but proposes that everyone in the family must be deported altogether.
Under birthright citizenship rules anyone who has birth in US territory becomes an American citizen.
All people born inside the US automatically become US citizens when they are born.
The US grants birthright citizenship under Citizenship Clause rules that the 14th Amendment added to the Constitution in 1868. The amendment states: Anyone living under US authority who gains birth or naturalization rights becomes a US citizen through this statute. Our blog demystifies birthright citizenship in US law with Trump’s impact.
The United States hosts about 13 to 14 million undocumented immigrants whose children born here automatically gain American citizenship.
Can Trump Do This?
Presidents have never attempted to transform citizenship rules with executive powers. By trying to change birthright citizenship Trump faces a direct showdown with Supreme Court decisions and may shape historic rules for US citizenship.
Courts will defend ‘birthright citizenship’ rights until federal lawmakers change them through an amendment. The presidential amendment needs support from both houses and must win backing from three-quarters of state lawmakers which Trump recognizes will extend over multiple years.
His focus extends past his second term because this case could take several years to resolve. Since the year 1992 America’s Constitution has not suffered any updates.
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