Vanessa Cárdenas Reacts to SCOTUS Ruling on Birthright Citizenship

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Washington, DC — The following is a statement from America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas, reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA.

“Like most Americans, I’ve always believed the U.S. was a place where our Constitutional rights were guaranteed—where citizenship, especially constitutionally enshrined birthright citizenship, was sacred and protected. Today’s Supreme Court decision not only weakens the judicial branch and its essential role as a check and balance against executive overreach, but also threatens to unravel the very promise that a child born in America is American. If the Trump Administration succeeds, millions of children born in U.S. soil will now be stateless.

Make no mistake: this is part of the Trump-Miller agenda to redefine who counts in America—and to decide who gets to call themselves American. This is an unprecedented and chilling shift —it’s a dangerous erosion of our rights and a dangerous expansion of Trump’s imperial power, with serious implications far beyond immigration and birthright citizenship. Unfortunately, it opens the door to widespread discrimination, division, chaos and fear.”