A federal appeals court has ruled to block the Trump administration’s efforts to end birthright citizenship. The ruling is the latest barrier to an executive order signed by President Trump in January.
As AP reports, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston says citizenship cannot be withheld from children born to parents who are undocumented or here temporarily. It’s the fifth ruling against a Day 1 executive order that Arizona and other states have filed suits against.
The order is currently blocked under court order, but under it — and in subsequent guidance issued by Citizenship and Immigration Services — people born to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally or even have legal temporary status would be barred from U.S. citizenship. Plaintiffs argue the order defies the 14th Amendment — which guarantees citizenship to all U.S.-born babies, irrespective of their parents’ race, ethnicity, or national origin.
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Emmanuel Damas, 56, was in the process of seeking asylum after entering the U.S. in 2024 on a humanitarian parole program established under the Biden administration. -
ICE has released a 79-year-old Cuban woman from the Eloy Detention Center, after she spent nine months there. Julia Benitez suffers from dementia and was known inside the detention center as "la abuela," or the grandmother. -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says agents arrested more than 20 people in a raid in Phoenix this week near 15th and Peoria avenues. -
President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and said he will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin. -
Emmanuel Damas, 56, complained of a toothache on Feb. 13, his brother said, and almost a week later, he could no longer speak. ICE has not yet acknowledged the death.
