NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kim Wehle {WAIL-ee}, professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, about the Supreme Court's final decisions this term.
While delivering remarks at the opening ceremony of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota, President Trump discussed the Supreme Court decisions on presidential power and birthright citizenship.
The same day as the Court's ruling, the DOJ told staffers that it will “prioritize the investigation and prosecution of birth tourism schemes.”
This term, the US supreme court handed down decisions on issues ranging from voting rights to immigration and birthright citizenship, reshaping life for millions of people. Kai Wright speaks with Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for the Nation, about how the court got all its power in the first place, and why Mystal thinks court reforms to reign in that power aren’t just constitutional – they’re necessary. Continue reading...
Between 26,000 and 33,000 US births annually could be attributed to birth tourism, according to experts.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has a rather creative take on the Supreme Court’s ruling on transgender athletes. The hotly contested issue of biological boys competing against girls […]
Todd Blanche to target tourists and migrants despite such births accounting for less than 1% of US babies born yearlyA day after the US supreme court upheld the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has said federal prosecutors and law enforcement officers will focus on combating so-called “birth tourism” – the process of tourists, temporary visitors and undocumented immigrants traveling to the US and giving birth.“There’s other things that [the Department if Homeland Security] can do, and the federal government can do in the visa process, and the application process, to try to minimize or limit the opportunity of folks coming here not to visit, and not to do what they’re saying they’re doing on the tourist visa, but just to have a baby that can then be a US citizen,” Blanche told reporters. Continue reading...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announces on Wednesday DOJ will prioritize prosecutions of birth tourism schemes involving visa fraud as foreign nationals continue exploiting U.S. The post DOJ Launches New Crackdown on Birth Tourism After Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.