Local immigration attorney breaks down SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling
Athena Jreij
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) — Following the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling, local immigration attorneys are now worried about the impact it could have on their clients.
After more than 150 years of legal precedence, the court’s conservative majority ruled 6-3 to allow President Trump’s order to move forward in some ways. They also rolled back the power of lower court injunctions on the President’s orders.
Ally Bolour with the Bolour/Carl Immigration Group in Palm Springs, spoke with News Channel 3 in January about President Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. Bolour said he believed the order was ‘completely unconstitutional,’ and defied the 14th Amendment.
Now, Bolour says he’s shocked by the developments, but stands by his opinion that the order is unconstitutional and saying it could endanger babies of being deported with nowhere to go.
“That baby perhaps is not a U.S. citizen, which creates a problem because that baby may be stateless. That baby may have nowhere to go,” Bolour said.
While SCOTUS didn’t rule if the order was constitutional, it’s ruling will allow the President’s order to take effect in states or among persons that have not challenged it.
He thinks this could jam the court system and make enforcement difficult.
“The way they envision it is every single person that has a problem with this or every single state, you must sue as a class action lawsuit and see how it goes. It just exhausts all the resources that, both the federal and the state governments that are already, used to the max,” Bolour said.
The ruling comes as a major win for President Trump, who has long said the right has been abused by migrants.
“That was meant for the babies of slaves. It wasn’t meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation,” President Trump said in a press conference Friday.
While California, one of the 22 states that sued the Trump administration over it’s birthright citizenship order, is unlikely to face enforcement, Bolour says we could feel the impact in other ways.
“Until and unless there’s an adverse ruling on the 14th Amendment issue, birthright citizenship, we’re fine. The other thing that can happen is we can have an influx of pregnant women giving birth in states like California just to ensure that right,” Bolour said.
SCOTUS has given the administration 30 days to outline enforcement guidelines. Until then, all babies born in the U.S. are entitled to American citizenship.
For more information on the Bolour/ Carl Immigration Group, visit: https://americanvisas.net/