{"id":2394256,"date":"2025-01-23T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opposition-goes-after-trump-and-birthright-citizenship-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:10:18","slug":"opposition-goes-after-trump-and-birthright-citizenship-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opposition-goes-after-trump-and-birthright-citizenship-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition goes after Trump and birthright citizenship ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopposition-goes-after-trump-and-birthright-citizenship-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2394256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200c resistance movement against President donald Trump&#8217;s executive actions aimed at altering birthright citizenship has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defund-the-police-is-over\/\" title=\"Defund The Police Is Over\">gained significant momentum<\/a> following his recent orders. Various groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Democratic \u2062attorneys general, immigration activists, and progressive\u2063 lawmakers, \u200chave mobilized to legally challenge Trump&#8217;s plans. During a \u200bpress conference, Rep. \u2063Delia Ramirez \u200b(D-IL) emphasized \u2062the \u200ccommitment of communities to advocate for\u200d their rights and oppose the administration&#8217;s policies. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) \u2063condemned the executive\u200b action as unconstitutional and expressed\u2064 pride in the swift pushback from citizens nationwide. The ACLU and 18 Democratic state attorneys general have initiated lawsuits against\u2064 the administration, echoing \u200dsimilar resistance seen \u200din 2017\u200c following Trump&#8217;s previous \u2063immigration-related measures. Cecillia Wang, the national legal director \u200cof the \u2063ACLU, explained that\u2064 the focus \u2064on the birthright citizenship order stems from its\u2063 constitutional implications, asserting\u2063 that it \u2063contradicts the 14th \u200bAmendment, wich guarantees citizenship to all individuals born on U.S. soil. The Congressional hispanic Caucus and\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-rules-no-evidence-georgias-voting-law-discriminates-against-black-voters\/\" title=\"Georgia&#039;s voting law found non-discriminatory by court.\">civil rights \u2062organizations<\/a>\u200d have also \u2062condemned\u200b trump&#8217;s actions as unconstitutional and un-American, advocating \u2063for the preservation of established \u200ccitizenship rights.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Resistance movement kick-started over Trump&rsquo;s birthright citizenship order<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1941599\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The resistance movement dormant under former President Joe Biden sprung to life this week to stop President Donald Trump&rsquo;s immigration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3292389\/trump-sign-10-executive-orders-border-immigration-first-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"executive actions\">executive actions<\/a>, vowing to shut down his plan to end birthright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">citizenship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Shortly after Trump took office on Monday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/aclu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">American Civil Liberties Union<\/a>, Democratic attorneys general, immigration activists, and members of the progressive &ldquo;Squad&rdquo; mobilized to challenge Trump legally or in the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>At a progressive Democratic press conference Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) and others vowed to &ldquo;fight&rdquo; Trump over a number of his policy changes, including the citizenship issue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our communities are precious, and our coalition is ready to organize, to be in the streets, informing our community about their constitutional rights, and we&rsquo;re also ready to fight like hell for the people we love,&rdquo; Ramirez said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Trump&rsquo;s executive action to rescind birthright citizenship was not only unsound but was being met by valid blowback.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I do believe his executive order to end birthright citizenship is illegal and unconstitutional, that it should be challenged. I am really proud of folks around this country who responded so, so readily,&rdquo; Omar said, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3297198\/ilhan-omar-pushes-repeal-alien-enemies-act-trump-immigration-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"introducing legislation\">introducing legislation<\/a> to repeal the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 used as justification for Trump&rsquo;s immigration orders.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden surge of lawsuits against the Trump administration, including from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3295702\/18-democratic-state-attorneys-general-sue-trump-birthright-citizenship-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">18 Democratic state attorneys general<\/a> and the ACLU earlier this week, is reminiscent of 2017, when Trump was hit hard by left-leaning groups infuriated by what they viewed as anti-immigrant and discriminatory executive actions that focused on enhancing border security and maintaining the legitimacy of the immigration system.<\/p>\n<p>Cecillia Wang, national legal director at the ACLU, said they chose to sue first over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3254276\/donald-trump-challenges-implications-ending-birthright-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">birthright citizenship<\/a> executive order because it was a constitutional matter.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are working hard on bringing other lawsuits,&rdquo; Wang said during an <a href=\"https:\/\/video.snapstream.net\/Play\/aydctbKu0SnpgTTrECY0MQ?accessToken=bvv76kupx5m0n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">interview<\/a> Tuesday with CNN&rsquo;s Kate Bolduan. &ldquo;We moved with this&nbsp;lawsuit first because this is&nbsp;one of President Trump&rsquo;s first&nbsp;salvos, not only against American communities, including&nbsp;immigrant members of our&nbsp;communities,&nbsp;but also he&rsquo;s fundamentally&nbsp;striking at one of the promises&nbsp;of the American Constitution&nbsp;after the Civil War.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Through&nbsp;the 14th Amendment, one of the&nbsp;Reconstruction&nbsp;amendments, the framers of the&nbsp;Constitution made it clear that&nbsp;regardless of your parents&rsquo;&nbsp;nationality, your parents&rsquo;&nbsp;status, everyone born on&nbsp;American soil is a U.S.&nbsp;citizen,&rdquo; Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>The 43 Democrats on the House&rsquo;s Congressional Hispanic Caucus lamented the move as &ldquo;un-American and unconstitutional.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president of the nation&rsquo;s largest and oldest Latino civil rights organization, the League of United Latin American Citizens, said upholding the Constitution was the basis for the group&rsquo;s concerns over who could become a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While we support sound immigration policies, we must uphold the United States Constitution,&rdquo; said Roman Palomares, LULAC&rsquo;s national president and board chairman, in a statement. &ldquo;Any attempt to undermine the constitutionally protected birthright of those born in this country is an affront to both our laws and human decency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>LULAC CEO Juan Proa&ntilde;o went a step further and said Trump&rsquo;s order was such an affront that he viewed it as an attempt &ldquo;to demonize brown and black immigrants.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If not stopped, it will undermine the very essence of what it means to be an American and will tear families apart,&rdquo; Proa&ntilde;o said.<\/p>\n<p>World Relief, an organization that works with migrants and refugees globally, said it opposed the idea of rescinding the 14th Amendment because it was outside of Trump&rsquo;s legal authority to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There is a process to amend the U.S. Constitution, of course, but this is not it,&rdquo; Matthew Soerens, vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief, said in a statement. &ldquo;In any case, such a change would be shortsighted. Birthright citizenship has served the United States well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At least 11 million immigrants are residing in the country illegally, meaning children born to any of those people would be given U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Had their children also been born without legal status, we&rsquo;d have far more individuals residing unlawfully in our country, denied both the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and prohibited from fully contributing to what &mdash; thanks to the 14th Amendment &mdash; is their country as much as it is any other American&rsquo;s,&rdquo; Soerens said.<\/p>\n<p>While Democrats and left-leaning groups vowed to fight, Republicans moved forward with codifying Trump&rsquo;s plan into law. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/babin.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=14088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">introduced<\/a> a bill to end birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;America&rsquo;s citizenship laws should reflect fairness and respect for the rule of law,&rdquo; Babin said in a statement.&nbsp;&ldquo;This common-sense legislation corrects decades of misuse and closes the loophole that incentivizes illegal immigration and exploits U.S. citizenship through birth tourism.&nbsp;Citizenship is one of our nation&rsquo;s most precious privileges.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">faced problems walking back birthright citizenship<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In October 2018, the president insisted that&nbsp;birthright citizenship &ldquo;will be ended one way or the other,&rdquo;&nbsp;opening the door for congressional action after then-House Speaker&nbsp;Paul Ryan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/531131\/paul-ryan-breaks-with-trump-you-cannot-end-birthright-citizenship-with-an-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said that<\/a>&nbsp;doing so by executive action was unconstitutional. The effort did not move forward.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hailey Bullis contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1941599\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1941599\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resistance rises against Trump&#8217;s birthright citizenship order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2394257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/president-donald-trump-january-2025.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[46489,4762,3760,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2394256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-birthright-citizenship","tag-legislation","tag-opposition","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/president-donald-trump-january-2025.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394260,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394256\/revisions\/2394260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}