President Donald Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court this week for striking down much of his tariff agenda and warned that a similar ruling on his birthright citizenship would favor China.
Trump issued the statement on his “Truth Society” account on Monday, clarifying that he was not frustrated with the “Big Three” or the judges who sided with his administration in the tariff ruling. The Supreme Court will consider Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship in the coming months.
“The Supreme Court of the United States (which will be in lower case for a while due to a complete lack of respect!) has accidentally and unintentionally given me as President of the United States far more power and power than I had before their ridiculous, stupid, and very internationally divisive ruling,” Trump wrote.
“Our incompetent Supreme Court has done a great job for the wrong people, and for that they should be ashamed of themselves (but not the Big Three!). Next thing you know they’re ruling in favor of China and other countries who made an absolute fortune on birthright citizenship by saying the 14th Amendment was not written to care for the ‘babies of slaves,’ as evidenced perfectly by the exact time it was written, filed, and ratified. It coincided with the end of the Civil War,” Trump continued.
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“Can you do better than that? But this Supreme Court will find a way to reach a wrong conclusion that will once again make China and other countries happy and wealthy. Let our Supreme Court continue to make decisions that are so bad and harmful to the future of our country — I have a job to do,” he added.
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Trump signed the birthright citizenship order on his first day in office last year. The order seeks to end birthright citizenship for nearly all people born in the United States to undocumented parents or to parents with legal temporary status in the United States — a major shift that critics say would break with about 150 years of legal precedent.
Trump’s order would reinterpret the 14th Amendment, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside” – a provision that administration officials believe has been misunderstood.
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Members of the Supreme Court pose for a photo following the recent appointment of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Friday, October 7, 2022
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The language proposed by the Trump administration is intended to clarify that individuals born to illegal immigrant parents, or those who are here legally but on a temporary nonimmigrant visa, are not natural-born citizens.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on the issue could have broad national implications for an issue that Trump officials consider a key component of his hard-line immigration agenda that has become a defining feature of his second term in the White House.
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Opponents, meanwhile, argue that the move is unconstitutional and “unprecedented” and would threaten the roughly 150,000 children born to non-citizen parents in the U.S. each year, according to the Pew Research Center, as well as the roughly 4.4 million children under 18 who are born in the U.S. and live with illegal immigrant parents.
Fox News’ Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.
Original source of the article: Trump says Supreme Court ruling against birthright citizenship will benefit China