Trump’s doj responds to pregnant women suing to protect Birthright -State Citizenship

Trump -Administration responded Friday to a trial that was filed on behalf of five pregnant women who challenged his executive order to end the birthright of the birth of citizenship.

Matter, Submitted by Maryland Federal Court in JanuaryChallenges President Donald Trump’s order, “to protect the meaning and value of US citizenship” seeking to do so, so that children born in the United States to parents who are undocumented immigrants or temporarily in the country will be Automatic citizens.

In an opposition movement that has been filed against the women On FridayThe Department of Justice characterized the order as “common sense.”

“Monica,” A Venezuelan-born doctor who now lives in South Carolina under temporary protected status is one of the five represented in the case. In August, she has to declared in her statement to court that she is afraid of her child because she cannot return to her country for citizenship.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order of deregulation in the Oval Office in the White House Friday 31. January 2025.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order of deregulation in the Oval Office in the White House Friday 31. January 2025. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

“There is no Venezuelan consulate in the US where I could
Even apply for Venezuelan citizenship for my baby and we will have to travel outside the US to get a Venezuelan passport to our child, ”Monica wrote in his statement.

“I was very shocked,” Monica told The Guardian. “This is a right that is in the constitution of this country – so you can’t imagine that they would remove it just because.”

The complaint filed by immigrant lawyer groups Casa, Inc. and Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, called Executive Order, an “obvious violation” of the citizenship clause in 14. Amendment of the Constitution. The Citizenship Clause says that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and the state where they live.”

According to the logic of Trump’s order, the children of undocumented immigrants are not “subject to the jurisdiction” in the United States, and the 14th amendment does not therefore apply to them.

Monica, along with the other four women represented in the case, said in their statement that they are afraid of using their full names in the trial of fear of retaliation from the government, which for some may include deportation.

The Advocacy groups also filed a temporary restriction order that blocked the policy from going into force, arguing that it would cause “irreparable harm.” The withholding order quotes a previous legal case calling the executive order “a form of punishment that is more primitive than torture,” by making a baby born in the US stateless.

One of the women, Liza, said in his sworn statement That she fears returning to her homeland Russia for fear of persecution and would therefore not be able to secure a Russian passport for her child.

“When I heard that President Trump signed an executive order that would deny my child US citizenship, my world fell apart,” she said.

Federal District Court Judge John Coughenour from Washington State temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order last week in a separate filing and calls it “obviously constitutional.”

“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades,” Coughenour Reported said. “I don’t remember another case where the question presented was just as clear.”

IN The opposition movement filed On Friday, the Ministry of Justice defended the executive order and argued that the constitution does not give “the children to those who have circumvented (or directly defied) federal immigration laws” for citizenship.

The archiving characterized claims that the executive order is illegal as “dramatic claims.” It quoted Trump’s claims that immigrants in the United States are illegally a threat to national security, arguing that the situation guarantees a “full panot of immigration measures”, including the executive order.

The proposal also repeated the executive order interpretation of the 14th amendment. Doj wrote that a person under “Jurisdiction” in the United States must have a “direct and immediate allegiance” that would not apply to “foreigners who are temporarily or individuals here illegally.”

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