I'm writing because the Supreme Court just protected something I care about, and Congress is already trying to undo it.
On June 30, the Court ruled that children born here are citizens at birth, blocking the executive order that would have denied them citizenship. The vote was 6-3. The Court said what it said in 1898 about Wong Kim Ark: a child born on American soil is an American. Pew estimates about 260,000 babies born in 2023 who would have lost that under the order. Those kids are in our daycares and pediatric offices right now.
Within two weeks of the ruling, new bills were filed to change the citizenship law anyway. H.R. 9633 and S. 4954 join H.R. 569 and S. 304, which already had 94 and 11 cosponsors. Four proposed constitutional amendments would go further. None of them has passed a committee, and I want to keep it that way.
This isn't a close question for most people. A June Quinnipiac poll found 69% of voters want to keep the 1898 ruling. Taking citizenship away from babies would create a class of people born here who belong nowhere, and it would do nothing about the problems people actually worry about. A child who is a citizen can't even sponsor a parent for a green card until age 21.
The Court settled this. I'm asking you to go on record now, before anything comes to a vote: will you vote no on H.R. 569, H.R. 9633, S. 304, S. 4954, and every constitutional amendment that would end birthright citizenship?
