New Hampshire Judge Blocks The Trump Administration’s Birthright Citizenship Order Nationwide

The Trump administration’s executive order to terminate birthright citizenship has been blocked by a federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday, July 10.

The Judge granted an injunction in a class action lawsuit, protecting children born to undocumented migrants or to migrants with temporary protected status from the revoking of their citizenship by the Trump administration’s executive order.

This is especially significant due to the Supreme Court’s ruling last month in Trump V. CASA, which ruled that the ability of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions to prevent select actions of an administration exceeded their authority. This ruling threatened to unshackle executive power and chip away at the nation’s checks and balances, limiting those who could push back against unconstitutional federal actions.

However, the court imposed no limitations on class action lawsuits, where the party who is suing represents an entire class of individuals; in this case, all children born to undocumented or temporarily protected migrants, who happen to live nationwide. The New Hampshire judge worked around the supreme court’s ruling by imposing an injunction through a class action lawsuit to protect these individuals from the administration’s executive order.

The targeting of those born to undocumented or temporarily protected migrants clearly outlines the intentions of this administration to extend deportation rhetoric beyond their stated “criminals only” approach. There is no world in which the targeting of citizenship serves the American people and sets no precent for this power to expand beyond the individuals currently in the crosshairs. It has never been about the “criminals” but rather about a targeting of those deemed to be an “other”.

This rhetoric and useless policy goals are what justify an allocation of 175 billion dollars to agencies like ICE while public schools, hospitals, nutrition assistance programs, and the like struggle for funding. This administration continues to pursue unjust policies while leaving behind millions of struggling Americans.