US Gives Birthright Case Judge Assurances Amid Deportation Fears
Women and their children arrive at a bus station following release from Customs and Border Protection in McAllen, Texas.
Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe US Justice Department told a skeptical judge that the government won’t apply President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship to affected immigrants before July 27, when the US Supreme Court’s 30-day pause on the directive expires.
Government lawyer Brad Rosenberg made the pledge in a filing Tuesday with US District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland. She’d requested written assurances after expressing concern about the potential for child deportations under the executive order during the 30-day window.