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Birthright citizenship worries Michigan immigrant group 

By Editorial Board Published May 20, 2025 3 Min Read
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Birthright citizenship worries Michigan immigrant group 

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — President Trump signed an govt order again in January that will “deny citizenship” to kids who’re born to individuals residing within the U.S. illegally or quickly. 

The president’s govt order was blocked by a federal choose, who referred to as it “unconstitutional,” however that also leaves many unanswered questions for first-generation residents. 

A mid-Michigan girl, who wished to stay nameless on account of her father’s citizenship standing, says that as an American raised by two immigrant mother and father, she’s terrified. 

“I, myself, was born when neither of my mother and father had authorized standing,” she mentioned. 

Though she was born within the U.S. in 1988 to 2 Mexican immigrant mother and father, she says her mother and father didn’t obtain their authorized standing till after she was born.

“That puts me in a very, very stressful situation because if it were retroactive, what does that leave me?” she said. “That leaves me being undocumented.”

She finds herself in the identical state of affairs as many different individuals who had been born to immigrant mother and father who stay in the USA. 

She says presently, her mom is a U.S citizen and her father has his inexperienced card, however she nonetheless worries about what might occur subsequent. 

Julie Powers, Government Director for Immigrant Legislation and Justice Michigan, says she worries for the kids who could possibly be affected. 

“It’s going to create chaos and confusion. It’s going to absolutely devastate our schools. It’s going to devastate our courts, because everything’s gonna have to go through the court system,” said Powers. “These are children, for the most part, who are most likely to be affected by this.”

Powers says President Trump’s govt order conflicts with one of many amendments written within the U.S. Structure. 

“Birthright citizenship was enshrined within the 14th Modification instantly after the Civil Warfare, and the intention was to make sure that everybody who was born in the USA and formally enslaved individuals had been really counted as full individuals as an alternative of three-fifths, and so, it has been in our Structure because the 1860s,” mentioned Powers. 

She says as a result of President’s govt motion, her shoppers are uneasy. 

“A lot of clients are not wanting to file paperwork because they’re afraid to come to a public location,” said Powers. “Some kids aren’t in school right now or doing distance learning, remote learning.”

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