Los Angeles, CA – The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), one of the largest member-based immigrant rights organizations in the country, reacted to the disastrous ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which does not address the lawfulness of the president’s Executive Order attempting to limit birthright citizenship, which every lower court to address the issue has held to be unconstitutional. Instead, the decision grants a partial stay of the nationwide injunctions to the extent they are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to the plaintiffs, leaving that determination to the district courts.
The injunction barring enforcement of the Executive Order remains in place as to the plaintiffs on these cases: the named individual plaintiffs, ASAP members, and CASA members, as well as residents of the 22 states, including California, that also sued the Administration.
The following comments can be attributed to Angelica Salas, Executive Director for Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA):
“Today’s ruling does not address the constitutionality of birthright citizenship and instead grants President Trump more executive power to move forward with his racially infused agenda. The hypocrisy and selective memory of those decrying the protections of an injunction now while using them effectively during the Biden or Obama Administration is glaring.
This is a terribly misguided decision and one which could leave some US-born citizens born of undocumented parents living in some states and jurisdiction stateless and unprotected and others living in other states or jurisdictions in limbo.
Mr. Trump’s executive order does not go into effect for 30 days during which time we will continue to defend the fundamental promise of the Constitution – that every child born on U.S. soil is equal under the law. The final arbiter of this question is not an arch conservative court in Washington, DC but the mighty arm of justice and history which are on our side.”
