Skilled Legal Workers Find They, Too, Are Targets of Trump Citizenship Order
The New York Times
The executive order would ban citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign workers on visas that often lead to permanent residency.
Shraavya and Sumukh, two Indian-born engineers who work in California, are thrilled to be expecting their first child.
They know they are having a boy and that he is due on Feb. 19.
What they are far less certain of is whether their firstborn will be a U.S. citizen, after President Trump issued an executive order that seeks to end the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.
The order has injected a dose of anxiety and uncertainty into an otherwise exciting, joyful time for the couple who are in the country legally with long-term work visas.
“You already have a lot of things to be stressed about,” said Shraavya, 31, the mother to be. “Then this came into the picture.”
The birthright citizenship order, issued in Mr. Trump’s first hours back in the White House, has prompted a wave of legal challenges and a succession of sharp critiques from the federal courts. Judges in Maryland and Washington have issued nationwide injunctions halting any action to carry out the directive, and another in New Hampshire took similar action on Monday.
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President Trump’s early moves to slash the federal government and expand American territory represent significant ideological swings from his first term.
When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American.
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One thing lost in the Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy is the collective voice of the employees. But some have begun to speak out.
In an interview with The New York Post, President Trump said that congestion pricing hurt New York City but indicated that he was still talking with Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Some traders made tens of millions off a new cryptocurrency launched by President Trump and his sons. Many others lost out.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed to earmark $400 million to revitalize the capital of New York, where poverty rates are high and the downtown is moribund.
Trump administration officials have misled about how the aid agency is spending its funding, in an effort to cite widespread “waste.”
In the lawsuit, the city states that people associated with the group made death threats last year against those who expressed support for Haitian residents.
Three ducks died of the disease at the Queens Zoo, while three more ducks and nine wild birds that died at the Bronx Zoo were being tested for the virus, according to the parks’ operator.
Birmingham, Ala., which had a record year for homicides, is trying to curb shootings by blocking streets. But the effort has come to mean something else.
Paul Tazewell, who was nominated for an Oscar for “Wicked,” makes time for yoga before a day of shopping, museums and dinner with friends.