Supreme Court rejects President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order
The Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on birthright citizenship, the centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy.
New Georgia Congressman Clay Fuller called for a constitutional amendment following Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling protecting birthright citizenship.
In a landmark 6-3 decision at the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices rejected President Donald Trump’s proposed immigration policy that would limit the membership of U.S. citizens.
The justices ruled that the president cannot redefine birthright citizenship and that all children born in the United States meet the 14th Amendment’s citizenship requirements, regardless of whether their parents are in the country legally.
“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights and to participate freely in our political community,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to “all persons born free in this land.” We keep that promise today. ”
Courts are “prioritizing the future of illegals,” Fuller said.
In a statement published in X following the court’s ruling, Representative Fuller of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District accused the court of “prioritizing the future of illegal aliens over Americans.”
“The invasion must stop,” Fuller wrote. “Congress needs to take decisive action.”
Fuller then mentioned HJRes, a resolution he introduced in the House of Representatives in May. 172.
The resolution would require people born in the United States to have at least one citizen or legal resident parent in order to obtain citizenship. People born in the United States to illegal parents are not citizens.
Fuller has previously criticized the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) system in place for many Syrian and Haitian refugees in the United States, calling Somalis “crooks,” “pirates” and “thugs.” He celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to end TPS for Haiti and Syria earlier this month.
“Temporary means temporary. Send them back. Americans first!” Fuller wrote of X.
He has even joked on social media about the deportation of Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Mr. Fuller is newly elected after Marjorie Taylor Greene retires.
Fuller was elected to the House of Representatives in a special runoff earlier this year against Democrat Sean Harris to fill the seat left by former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Fuller has been endorsed by President Trump and was a strong supporter of MAGA during his first months in Washington.
Mr. Fuller won the seat by a much narrower margin than Ms. Greene had ever seen, and Ms. Harris had the best performance in Democratic history in the deep red district of northwest Georgia between Atlanta and Tennessee.
Harris and Fuller are scheduled to return to the polls in November, when Fuller will have to answer to voters about her actions in Congress.
“Northwest Georgia needed a vote on housing. Clay Fuller voted no. But when President Trump called for the deportation of Haitian and Syrian families, Clay suddenly spoke up,” Harris said in a social media post after Fuller supported ending TPS. “For us, he’s a no-vote. For Trump, he’s a full-time yes-man.”
Eileen Wright is an Atlanta Connect reporter for USA Today’s Deep South Connect team, covering Georgia politicians and elections. X Find her at @IreneEWright or email her at ismith@usatodayco.com.This story has been updated to include a gallery.
