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How the Supreme Court’s injunction ruling advances Trump’s birthright citizenship fight
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President Donald Trump is aiming to terminate birthright citizenship in the United States – and the Supreme Court’s recent decision to curb universal injunctions has brought him one step closer to accomplishing that mission.
While changing the way the government gives citizenship to babies born in the United States is still an uphill climb, the high court’s ruling raised the possibility that Trump’s new policy to end automatic citizenship could, at least temporarily, take effect in some parts of the country.
Lawyer Carrie Severino, president of the conservative legal advocacy group JCN, said it was unclear at this stage of litigation how Trump’s policy would work logistically or to whom it would apply. The Supreme Court’s decision, issued June 27, barred Trump’s executive order from becoming active for 30 days.
«Normally, if you give birth at the hospital, they just automatically issue everyone a Social Security number,» Severino told Fox News Digital. «Now the question isn’t open and shut like that.»
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In dealing with the Trump administration’s birthright citizenship case, the Supreme Court addressed a much broader question concerning the injunction power of federal judges. (Getty Images)
The Supreme Court’s decision arose from various Democratic-led states and immigration rights groups bringing several lawsuits across the country challenging Trump’s executive order, which the president signed shortly after he took office.
The order dramatically changed the scope of birthright citizenship, which is outlined under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and allows babies born to noncitizens in the United States to automatically receive U.S. citizenship in most cases.
Courts uniformly rejected Trump’s policy and blocked it by issuing universal injunctions that applied to the whole country and not just certain pregnant noncitizens being represented in court.
Seattle-based federal Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, chastised government attorneys during a February hearing over the matter.
«It has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals,» the judge said. «The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain.»
Coughenour later said that if Trump wanted to change the «exceptional American grant of birthright citizenship,» then the president would need to work with Congress to amend the Constitution, rather than attempt to redefine the amendment through an executive order.
What happens in the coming weeks?
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s order, courts and plaintiffs are moving quickly to adapt and, in some cases, find workarounds before the 30-day deadline arrives.
Within hours of the high court’s decision, plaintiffs who brought a birthright citizenship lawsuit in Maryland asked a judge to change the lawsuit to a class action proceeding that covers all babies who will be born after Trump’s executive order takes effect.
The request was one of what is quickly becoming a manifold of court requests that are testing the Supreme Court’s injunction decision and potentially undercutting it.
The Supreme Court’s decision left intact the ability for judges, if they see fit, to use class action lawsuits or statewide lawsuits to hand down sweeping orders blocking Trump’s policies from applying to wide swaths of people.
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The underlying merits of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship policy are on track to end up at the Supreme Court. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
«The bottom line is that the Trump administration has the right to carry this order out nationwide, except where a court has stayed it as to parties actually involved in a lawsuit challenging it,» Severino said.
American Immigration Council’s Michelle Lapointe wrote online there was a «real possibility» that if the judges overseeing the current lawsuits do not find a way in the next few weeks to issue broad injunctions blocking birthright citizenship, then some states might see the policy take effect.
«That raises the risk of babies born in certain parts of the United States… being fully stripped of their rights as U.S. citizens, perhaps even rendering them stateless,» Lapointe wrote. «The human cost of such an action is unconscionable.»
SCOTUS-bound, again
Regardless of what happens in the coming weeks and months, the underlying merits of Trump’s birthright citizenship policy are on track to end up at the Supreme Court.
The justices were able to avoid touching the substance of Trump’s argument by merely considering the constitutionality of universal injunctions during this last go-round, but the next time a birthright citizenship lawsuit comes before them, they are likely to have to weigh in on whether Trump’s policy is constitutional.
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union address in the House chamber in 2020 in Washington. (Getty Images)
Severino said she believed the six Republican-appointed justices would rely heavily on «history and tradition» and «what the words were understood to mean in 1868 when the 14th Amendment was passed.»
«It’s a challenging issue, in part because our immigration system looks so dramatically different now than it did at the time of the 14th Amendment, because the sort of immigration we’re looking at was not really on their radar, nor was the type of entitlement state that we are living in,» Severino said.
Michael Moreland, Villanova University law school professor, told Fox News Digital there has long been an academic debate about the language in the amendment. It states that babies born in the United States and «subject to the jurisdiction thereof» are citizens. The dispute, Moreland said, has centered on «how broadly or narrowly» to interpret that clause.
The Trump administration has said that as part of its immigration crackdown, it wants to curtail abuse of the 14th Amendment, which can include foreigners traveling to the United States strictly to give birth with no intention of legally settling in the country. The amendment also incentivizes migrants to enter the country illegally to give birth and rewards pregnant women already living illegally in the country by imparting citizenship to their children, the administration has said.
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Judges, thus far, have found that Trump’s policy is at odds with more than 150 years of precedent. The government has long given citizenship to any child born in the United States with few exceptions, such as babies born to foreign diplomats or foreign military members.
«The balance of opinion for a long time has been on the side of saying that the 14th Amendment does have a right of birthright citizenship,» Moreland said.
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EEUU ordenó evacuar a su personal diplomático de Arabia Saudita mientras el régimen de Irán amplía sus represalias en el Golfo
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El gobierno de Estados Unidos ordenó el martes la salida de Arabia Saudita del personal diplomático no esencial y sus familias, en respuesta a la amenaza creciente que representa la campaña de represalias iraní en el Golfo Pérsico. La decisión del Departamento de Estado llegó horas después de que dos drones atacaran la embajada estadounidense en Riad, causaran un incendio limitado y obligaran al personal a refugiarse en el interior del complejo. No se registraron víctimas, según confirmó el Ministerio de Defensa saudí, pero la agresión contra suelo diplomático marcó una nueva escalada en el conflicto abierto el 28 de febrero con los bombardeos conjuntos de Washington e Israel sobre Irán.
La orden de evacuación no se limitó a Arabia Saudita. El Departamento de Estado extendió la medida a Kuwait, Baréin, Irak, Catar, Jordania y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, en un movimiento que refleja la magnitud de la amenaza percibida en toda la región. La embajada en Kuwait, que también sufrió un ataque, cerró de forma indefinida. Paralelamente, la secretaria adjunta de Estado para Asuntos Consulares, Mora Namdar, instó a los ciudadanos estadounidenses a abandonar de inmediato catorce países, entre ellos Arabia Saudita, Israel, Líbano, Siria y Yemen, por “graves riesgos para su seguridad”.
La sede diplomática en Riad emitió alertas de refugio para los estadounidenses presentes en Riad, Yeda y Dammam, y restringió los desplazamientos no esenciales a instalaciones militares en la zona. El Ministerio de Defensa saudí confirmó que sus defensas aéreas interceptaron cuatro drones dirigidos al Barrio Diplomático de la capital, y en una segunda oleada derribaron ocho proyectiles adicionales cerca de Riad y Al-Kharj, según informó el portavoz militar mayor general Turki al-Malki.
Arabia Saudita condenó los ataques en los términos más firmes. El Ministerio de Exteriores calificó las agresiones de “descaradas y cobardes” y recordó que el Reino había comunicado a Teherán que no toleraría el uso de su territorio ni de su espacio aéreo como corredor para atacar Irán. La advertencia no disuadió a la República Islámica, que extendió su campaña a objetivos energéticos: Saudi Aramco tuvo que detener operaciones en su refinería de Ras Tanura tras el incendio causado por los restos de un proyectil iraní en uno de los mayores complejos de procesamiento de crudo del mundo.
Las evacuaciones diplomáticas se producen en el cuarto día de un conflicto que ya causó más de 1.000 muertos en Irán, según la Media Luna Roja iraní, además de once en Israel, 52 en Líbano y seis militares estadounidenses confirmados por el Mando Central de EEUU. El OIEA informó que el sitio de enriquecimiento de Natanz sufrió “daños recientes”, aunque descartó consecuencias radiológicas. El general de brigada iraní Ebrahim Jabbari, asesor de la Guardia Revolucionaria, declaró cerrado el estrecho de Ormuz y advirtió que cualquier buque que lo cruzara “sería incendiado”, lo que disparó los precios del crudo en los mercados internacionales.
El presidente Donald Trump prometió responder “pronto” al ataque contra la embajada y a la muerte de soldados estadounidenses, y reconoció que la operación militar podría prolongarse más allá de las cuatro o cinco semanas previstas. La muerte del líder supremo Alí Khamenei en un ataque selectivo el fin de semana dejó la cadena de mando iraní en una incertidumbre que, lejos de frenar las represalias, parece alimentarlas, sin que ninguna de las partes haya señalado hasta ahora una vía de salida negociada.
(Con información de AFP)
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Private security group helps people evacuate the Middle East
A global security firm, Global Guardian, has evacuated more than 4,000 people from the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran last weekend. FOX takes a look at how Global Guardian is executing evacuations out of the Middle East.
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MCLEAN, Va. – As Americans are stranded in the Middle East amid the U.S. and Israel war with Iran, government and private agencies are working around the clock to conduct evacuations.
In addition to the U.S. Department of State’s 24/7 task force aimed at evacuating Americans, private security firm Global Guardian is also working around the clock to complete the same mission.
As of Friday, Global Guardian has evacuated more than 4,000 people from the Middle East, according to its CEO and President, Dale Robert Buckner.
While operations and logistics teams sit in an office building in northern Virginia, the firm has personnel in more than 140 countries, allowing Global Guardian access to nearly every corner of the world for emergency response or evacuations.
Global Guardian receiving calls for evacuations in the Middle East.
«We provide medical evac services, we provide kidnap, ransom, extortion negotiation payment if someone is kidnapped or extorted,» Buckner said. «We’re providing about 300 missions a month of executive protection travel, in about 84 countries a month.»
The private security firm also conducts camera surveillance of residences and commercial property and has cyber analysts monitoring mobile devices.
After the U.S. and Israel struck Iran in a joint attack last weekend, the firm has been coordinating multiple emergency response evacuations — but this isn’t the first time it has assisted Americans out of a crisis zone.
«That means getting people out of Puerto Vallarta a week ago, and Jalisco, Mexico. That means getting people out of Asheville, North Carolina when it got wiped out by a hurricane,» Buckner said.
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Logistically, getting tourists out of a war zone and back to safety is a process, but the firm works fast, completing their first border crossing within the first six hours of the missile strikes.
Immediately, the firm received a call from a pair of students studying abroad, Deputy Vice President of Operations Colin O’Brien told Fox News. He said they were trying to leave Dubai.
«Within about four and a half hours from the phone call, we had our teams in motion to go pick these people up and it was two college-aged women,» said O’Brien.
Global Guardian security firm is working around the clock to execute emergency evacuations in the Middle East.
«Put them in the car, we were then able to move from the Omani border and by eight hours we were at the border. Work through the border checkpoint to a hotel in Muscat, where we could stop and give them a short rest while we arrange their transportation home,» he says.
The group said it remains active year-round to ensure evacuation plans are in place before disasters strike.
«There’s a narrative of, here’s the pickup point, here’s the key crossing site,» Buckner said. «This is what you’re gonna need from a paperwork standpoint, legally. And then we’re gonna put you in a hotel or straight onto a commercial flight. Most likely, at this point in the war, we’re gonna put you on a private charter.»
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Buckner said most of these missions happening in the region are ground movement, done by locals. He says in the 140 countries the firm is in, they have ground teams working year-round. Consistently training year-round.
«We’re communicating, we’re coordinating, we’re executing. Executive protection agents, armed agents, armed vehicles, large-scale event support with medical and security personnel,» he said, describing the firm’s standard operating capabilities.
«We’re coordinating whether the firm needs drivers. From Dubai to Oman, Israel to either Oman, Jordan or Egypt. Out of Bahrain into Saudi Arabia,» Buckner said.
While the firm is coordinating with the State Department, it said it has not yet conducted a flight mission on behalf of the department.
Security firm analysts create plans to evacuate Americans.
Global Guardian offers these services through what it calls a «Duty of Care Membership,» which Buckner said costs $15,000 per year for a family of five.
«You are going to sign a contract — whether it’s a family, a family office or typically a large corporate logo. Then we become, at your beck and call,» Buckner said, describing the emergency response services included in the agreement.
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For Americans currently stuck in the Middle East, Buckner said the cost of evacuation using ground and air resources varies depending on the situation and location.
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Los conductores estadounidenses ya están sintiendo los efectos de los precios del crudo, que han subido más de 30 por ciento desde que comenzaron los ataques militares contra Irán, afirma el sitio Axios. Eso es 3,45 dólares por galón (3,7 litros).
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