U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at judges and justices before the Supreme Court holds an oral hearing on Wednesday to examine the White House decree limiting the acquisition of birthright citizenship in the United States, a historic right in the country.
“The world is getting rich selling citizenships to our country, while, at the same time, laughing at how STUPID our U.S. judicial system has become (ARRANCHES!). “Inept judges and magistrates do not make a great country!” wrote Trump on his social network Truth.
Trump criticizes judges and birthright citizenship
“Birthright citizenship is not about wealthy people in China – and the rest of the world – who want their children – and hundreds of thousands more – to become, FOR PAY, citizens of the United States of America in an absurd way. It’s about the CHILDREN OF SLAVES!” the president added.
The Supreme Court justices must resolve whether or not the executive order Trump signed on the first day of his return to office in January 2025, which would end automatic citizenship for people born in the United States to undocumented parents or those with temporary legal status in the country, is constitutional.
The concept of birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution and is linked to the very essence of the identity of the United States as a host country.
The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified after the Civil War to ensure that former slaves and their children could obtain citizenship.
If the justices were to uphold Trump’s decree they would break with more than 150 years of jurisprudence upholding the right to acquire U.S. citizenship by virtue of being born in the United States.
The Supreme Court’s final ruling is expected in three months and, until then, the White House’s plans remain frozen.
This is a landmark case of great impact that could alter the lives of millions of Americans, people born in the country and who have always lived in it even though they may have undocumented or foreign parents, and that fully impacts the “iron fist” and restrictive immigration policy that the President of the United States wants to apply.
The nine-judge court has already partially struck down tariffs that Trump considered key to his economic policy, and will also debate in April the end of protections for migrants with temporary protected status.
Rulings on the president’s power to remove members of independent agencies, including the governors of the Federal Reserve, are still pending.
With information from EFE
