Trump to ask Supreme Court to reconsider birthright citizenship ruling

Donald Trump is demanding the US Supreme Court reconsider its decision on birthright citizenship, claiming new evidence of billboards advertising services to expectant mothers from Mexico justifies a rehearing. The former president posted on his social media platform that "signs and billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with ‘Deliveries starting at $4000’." He described the court's prior ruling, which rejected his attempt to restrict birthright citizenship, as "absolutely insane."

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Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with ‘Deliveries starting at $4000’

The Supreme Court's previous decision upheld the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to those born in the United States and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." The court rarely grants requests to rehear cases after issuing a ruling, and has not done so in decades.

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the justices “will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision”

The "new evidence" cited by Trump appears to stem from a Fox News report about a single hospital in Mission, Texas, near the border with Mexico. This hospital had advertised "delivery packages" in south Texas on two billboards in Mexico and on social media. The image of one billboard was shared by Mayra Flores, a former Republican congresswoman from Texas, who expressed outrage over the advertised prices, noting they were lower than those for American citizens. She did not claim the prices were exclusively for foreign citizens.

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are no longer in use due to any unintended misunderstanding

The hospital, Mission Regional Medical Center, stated that the billboards and associated website are "no longer in use due to any unintended misunderstanding." The public nonprofit hospital affirmed its commitment to providing high-quality healthcare and expanding access to the communities it serves, adding that it shares information about its services like hospitals nationwide.

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Like hospitals across the nation, we share information about the healthcare services we provide.