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US judge again blocks Trump order restricting birthright citizenship

From Tuổi Trẻ · () Vietnamese

Translated from Vietnamese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • A Maryland federal judge temporarily barred enforcement of President Donald Trump’s latest order limiting birthright citizenship for children in a certified class action.
  • Judge Deborah Boardman said the order was almost certainly unconstitutional as applied to the affected children, whom the Supreme Court had deemed citizens at birth.
  • The ruling prevents federal agencies from denying or failing to recognize those children’s citizenship, while allowing agencies to issue implementation guidance.

A federal judge in Maryland has blocked Donald Trump’s latest attempt to restrict birthright citizenship, just two months after the US Supreme Court rejected an earlier effort by the president.

Judge Deborah Boardman of the federal district court in Greenbelt issued a temporary order on September 2 at the request of immigrant-rights organizations. The order targets Trump’s new executive action, which seeks to narrow the group of children eligible for citizenship because they were born in the United States.

The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s first attempt on June 30 to end birthright citizenship for children of people who are neither US citizens nor lawful permanent residents. The court said that order violated the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Trump signed the new order on August 6. It directly targets “birth tourism,” a term used for foreign mothers who travel to the United States to give birth so their children automatically receive US citizenship. The order also denies citizenship to children if a parent works for a foreign government in the United States, commits fraud or engages in a commercial transaction to obtain citizenship, or is classified as an “alien enemy” of a hostile country.

Lawyers in a class action representing children at risk of losing citizenship under the 2025 order asked Boardman to block the new measure and preserve their clients’ citizenship. She granted the request, writing that the latest order was almost certainly unconstitutional for the certified class. “The Supreme Court has decided: Children in this class action are ‘citizens from birth,’” Boardman wrote. Her order bars the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration from interfering with, denying or failing to recognize the children’s citizenship. The agencies may still issue guidance on how to implement the order. Reuters reported that the State Department had drafted guidance requiring parents applying for their children’s passports to provide proof of their own citizenship or lawful immigration status.

The Supreme Court has decided: Children in this class action are ‘citizens from birth.’

· Deborah BoardmanThe Maryland federal judge explained why she blocked the order for children covered by the certified class action.
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Originally published by Tuổi Trẻ in Vietnamese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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