Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: President Donald Trump said on July 8 he will ask the US Supreme Court to rehear a case challenging his executive order on birthright citizenship after justices rejected his policy in a landmark ruling on June 30.
“I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, immediately,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
“This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision.” In his statement, Trump said signs and billboards were being constructed “all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising birthright citizenship, with ‘deliveries starting at $4,000.”
US Solicitor General John Sauer argued during the Supreme Court case that birthright citizenship had “spawned a sprawling industry of birth tourism as uncounted thousands of foreigners from potentially hostile nations have flocked to give birth in the United States in recent decades, creating a whole generation of American citizens abroad with no meaningful ties to the United States.” The Centre for Immigration Studies estimated in 2020 the number of birth tourists each year is 20,000 to 26,000.
In 2019, 19 people were indicted on federal criminal charges in connection to a massive Orange County-based birth tourism business that catered to wealthy pregnant clients and government officials, charging them tens of thousands of dollars so their children could get U.S. citizenship.
Federal authorities have also busted other cases of birth tourism rings in recent years.
