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NALEO Educational Fund Denounces Executive Order On Birthright Citizenship

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund today released a statement in response to President Trump’s Executive Order attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship in the United States:


“For more than a century, the 14thAmendment of the U.S. Constitution has conferred U.S. citizenship to every person born on our nation’s soil, regardless of their parents’ heritage or citizenship status. President Trump’s proposal to effectively end birthright citizenship evokes a part of our nation’s history when this was not the case and violates this constitutional guarantee of U.S. citizenship for all persons born in the United States — a fortified and tested interpretation supported by long-standing judicial precedent.


“The Executive Order would deny U.S. citizenship to children of non-citizens who meet the president’s criteria. Given the number of U.S. Latinos born to non-citizen parents who meet this criteria, this Executive Order would have a particularly detrimental impact on the Latino community, violating the constitutional rights of millions of U.S. citizens. Denying U.S. citizenship from U.S. native-born children would create a permanent underclass of Americans who would be denied the rights and privileges of U.S. citizenship in direct violation of the Constitution.


“This Executive Order would force the children of the non-citizens outlined to live as stateless individuals. It would threaten the prosperity and vitality that these children — both Latino and non-Latino — could bring to our nation and its civic life.


“Only constitutional amendments, not executive orders or legislation, can change the U.S. Constitution. Birthright citizenship reflects the important American values of fairness, equality, and opportunity that must be preserved. We urge the president to revoke this Executive Order immediately. If he does not, the courts must strike it down and preserve the language and intent of the 14th Amendment.”

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