President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his legal team will “immediately” seek a rehearing before the Supreme Court on his efforts to overhaul birthright citizenship after a majority of justices ruled the White House’s executive order on the matter was unconstitutional.Trump expressed concern that illegal immigrants are taking advantage of the policy after Chief Justice John Roberts held that children born on American soil, including those to parents in the country unlawfully or on legal temporary visas, are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, and are thus citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment. In a post to Truth Social, the president claimed that “signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with ‘Deliveries starting at $4000,'” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision.
“Likewise, similar signs going up all over our Country,” the president claimed. “Billions of Dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM, with Citizenship going to anyone willing to pay. It will be, by far, the number one way of becoming a citizen, and then the entire family will be allowed to follow. Not sustainable. NOBODY SAW THIS COMING!!!”
