People have a sign while they participate in a demonstration before the United States Supreme Court for President Donald Trump’s decision to end the citizenship of the dawn while the court hears arguments concerning the order in Washington on May 15, 2025.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict citizenship of the birth law were declared unconstitutional by a second American court of appeal, giving him another defeat on a central element of his hard-line immigration program whose ultimate fate could go to bed with the United States Supreme Court.
A panel of three judges of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Boston, confirmed An injunction won by the United States and defenders of the rights of immigrants led by Democrat who prevented the decree of the Republican president from taking effect.
Trump’s order, published on its first day of power on January 20, orders agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States who do not have at least one parent who is a American citizen or a legitimate permanent resident, also known as the “green card”.
The principle of the citizenship of birth law has been recognized in the United States for more than 150 years, deriving from the 14th amendment which stipulates that any person born in the United States is considered a citizen.
Another court of appeal, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, in July also confirmed a national injunction preventing Trump’s order from taking effect on the grounds that it violated the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment of the American Constitution.
The administration last week asked the Supreme Court of the United States to hear its appeal in this case and a Courée. If the Supreme Court agrees, it will mark the second time that the dispute has been before the High Court, after its conservative majority 6-3 in June limited the power of the judges to block this and other actions of Trump nationally.
At the time, the Supreme Court did not weigh on the validity of the Citizenship of Citizenship of the Right of Bad of Trump. But in three cases where the judges had declared it unconstitutional, the court limited the capacity of the judges to issue so -called universal injunctions and led lower courts which had blocked Trump’s policy to the national scale to reconsider the scope of their orders.
The decision of the Supreme Court opened the door to the order of Trump which took effect in certain parts of the country, fueling uncertainty for immigrants and states with the implications of a system potentially patchwork of citizenship rules. However, during the months that followed, the bottom of the short judges prevented it several times from being implemented anywhere in the country.
The 1st circuit examined a decision by the American district judge Leo Sorokin to Boston, appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama, who ruled in favor of 18 states led by Democrat and the Columbia district in February.
After the June Court’s decision of the Supreme Court, he reaffirmed his initial decision to stop politics nationwide.
He said that a patchwork approach to citizenship would generate confusion, given the substantial movement of non -citizen parents and children between states and the impact of Trump would have on their administration of social services.
