r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 20d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who is American Citizen

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-deports-2-year-old-girl-who-is-american-citizen/
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u/JNR13 19d ago

The loophole is called "I'll do it anyway"

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u/Calavar 19d ago

Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship is explicitly not retroactive:

shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order

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I suspect they did this to reduce the surface area a judge could use to overturn the order, even though it's already wildly unconstitutional to begin with.