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Indian American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold birthright citizenship as the Justices prepare to hear what he described as “President Trump’s challenge to the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.”
In a statement, Congressman Krishnamoorthi said, “President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship is not only unconstitutional — it strikes at the values that have guided us since the Civil War. For more than 150 years, our courts have read the 14th Amendment’s command plainly: every child born on American soil arrives with an equal claim to the rights of citizenship.”
He emphasized that the constitutional guarantee has “anchored” the futures of generations of children who began life in the United States not only with the rights of citizenship at birth, but with the opportunity to pursue the future their parents envisioned for them. He added that these are American children whose futures “should not hinge on shifting politics or prejudice.”
“No president can override that constitutional promise or dim the welcoming light it has cast across our history,” he stated, urging the Court to affirm the longstanding legal interpretation. “The Supreme Court must reaffirm what the Constitution makes unmistakably clear: citizenship belongs to every child born in the United States.”
