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Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Blocked by Federal Judge

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      What we are seeing now is a challenge to one of the foundational pillars of equality and democracy in the United States,
      The Independent
      Dr. Martha Jones, an American history professor at Johns Hopkins University, told The Independent
    • 88:88
      I think we are in for a rocky ride right now in terms of that contestation, and we should probably be prepared for it,
      The Independent
      Dr. Manisha Sinha, an American history professor at the University of Connecticut, told The Independent
    • 88:88
      It’s clearly unconstitutional what Trump is trying to do with an executive order,
      The Independent
      Blight said
    • 88:88
      The [amendment] is the culmination, the actualization, of a position that Black Americans had advocated for over the course of many, many decades before the Civil War,
      The Independent
      Jones told The Independent
    • 88:88
      In terms of racial equality and racial justice in the United States, the near future looks extremely dark,
      The Independent
      Sinha said
    • 88:88
      But even when it looks pretty grim: I study the abolitionists who were persecuted for their beliefs for a very long time, and who did not enjoy any of the protections of the Bill of Rights for voicing their opinions in terms of fighting against slavery and for Black equality,
      The Independent
      she added
    • 88:88
      Americans — or anyone else tuning in — should ask themselves: Why do they think they’re U.S. citizens? They’re U.S. citizens because of the 14th Amendment and because of birthright,
      The Independent
      she said
    • 88:88
      Thomas Homan
      I’ve been working with members of Congress, and the whole team has been working, to come up with a number that makes sense,
      CNN
      border czar Tom Homan told CNN’s Dana Bash this week
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      We are worried about the impact that this is going to have on families, on children and, frankly, on law enforcement. We depend a lot on the cooperation of people in the immigrant community to help us solve crimes, to be witnesses in cases, and we are very worried that losing that cooperation is really going to endanger public safety,
      CNN
      New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez told CNN’s Laura Coates this week
    • 88:88
      There is a question whether they will simply allow the current time periods to lapse, or whether they actually will move forward and cancel the humanitarian paroles across the board,
      CNN
      Meissner says
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      Some of the other things that the president is talking about could really hamper that,
      CNN
      Meissner told reporters this week
    • 88:88
      It takes enormous resources. There are enormous resources already that are devoted for us as a country toward immigration enforcement,
      CNN
      Meissner says
    • 88:88
      We don’t know what the Supreme Court is going to say,
      CNN
      Chishti told reporters this week
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      The Trump administration’s declaration that it wishes to reestablish the level of vetting that existed during its first term serves as a signal to watch for obstacles and delays throughout the legal immigration system,
      CNN
      the American Immigration Council wrote in an analysis of this week’s executive orders
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      Karoline Leavitt
      Deportation flights have begun.”
      CNN
      White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared this image Friday of handcuffed migrants boarding a military aircraft, stating
    • 88:88
      Doris Meissner
      What’s being talked about now…is a different form of military assistance, and it’s a real escalation,
      CNN
      says Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service who now directs the US immigration policy program at the Migration Policy Institute
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      Ro Khanna
      I am confident that the Supreme Court will find that if you are born in America you are American. Trump’s cruel and unconstitutional order is targeting the American born children of those on H1-B visas and student visas.”
      Hindustan Times
      Asked about the restraining order, Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of California told HT
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      Obviously, we will appeal it. They put it before a certain judge in Seattle, I guess. Right? And there’s no surprises with that judge.”
      Hindustan Times
      Asked about the order, Trump told reporters on Thursday in the Oval Office
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      President Trump and Elon Musk have agreed legal immigration is necessary and supported H-1B. The biggest issue we have advocated is for children of legal immigrants, including H-1B visa holders, who age out. The way we can mobilise around this issue and the green card backlog is share our stores with legislators and have Americans we know — in our communities and workplaces and neighbourhoods — show that they care about this issue.”
      Hindustan Times
      Dip Patel, founder of Improve The Dream, an advocacy organisation, said
    • 88:88
      No president can change the constitution on a whim and today's decision affirms that,
      The Manila Times
      Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said