DE AG Kathy Jennings Statement of Blocking of President’s Birthright Citizenship Ban
July 28, 2025/
On Friday a federal appeals judge blocked President Trump’s birthright citizenship ban. Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings on Monday released the following statement after the District Court of Massachusetts again issued a nationwide injunction preventing the birthright citizenship executive order from taking effect…
“For six months now, President Trump has been hellbent on stripping American babies of their citizenship for the first time since the Civil War. A federal court has once again recognized that his crusade is baldly unconstitutional and has blocked it nationwide. We thank the court for its wisdom and its defense of the ConstitutionThese babies are Americans. They are welcome here, they belong here, and they have a right to be here—regardless of how the President believes Americans should look, sound, or worship. We will never stop fighting for them.”
The Trump administration has argued that children born in the U.S. to parents who are in the country illegally and temporarily are not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. and therefore not entitled to citizenship. The President signed the birthright citizenship executive order on his first day in office in January.