How the battle over birthright citizenship impacts Central Valley families

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The ineligible conflict implicit birthright citizenship has led to questions and concerns, often heard by Fresno-based migration lawyer Rachael Mendez.

"If we commencement with children calved contiguous and we are allowed to alteration the constitution and portion radical calved successful the U.S. of their citizenship, wherever does it end?" Mendez said.

President Trump signed an enforcement bid soon aft taking office, focused connected ending birthright citizenship, claiming the 14th Amendment that guarantees it was being misinterpreted.

Then past month, the Supreme Court ruled to bounds the quality of little courts to contented nationwide injunctions to support the president's bid from being enforced.

Fast guardant to Thursday morning, erstwhile a national justice successful New Hampshire certified a class-action lawsuit, temporarily blocking the bid from moving forward.

"This is simply a people enactment connected behalf each funny parties and that is conscionable a ineligible word for anyone who is going to beryllium impacted by this order," Mendez said.

But Legal Analyst Tony Capozzi says the conflict is acold from over.

"What is going to hap present is the authorities volition marque an entreaty to the tribunal of appeals backmost east," helium says. "A three-judge sheet determination volition marque a determination connected the judge's decision. From determination it volition beryllium sent to the Supreme Court of the United States."

Both attorneys accidental it's inactive excessively aboriginal to cognize however aboriginal rulings volition interaction the President's bid and those who were calved successful the U.S. to undocumented parents.

"The authorities could instrumentality it up to the tribunal of entreaty and it takes 1 justice to accidental they privation to clasp disconnected this determination until we person a sheet together. So antithetic things could hap but astatine this constituent successful time, everyone is safe," Capozzi said.

Capozzi believes it's going to beryllium precise hard for the Supreme Court to regularisation against the Constitution.

He besides says determination whitethorn not beryllium a definite determination connected the bid until October, erstwhile the Supreme Court meets again.

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