Sen. Cruz Leads Amicus Brief in Support of Trump Executive Order on U.S. Citizenship

Sen. Cruz Leads Amicus Brief in Support of Trump Executive Order on U.S. Citizenship

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, filed an amicus brief in Trump v. Washington and Trump v. Barbara. The brief argues that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause does not grant automatic citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who are illegally present. This case is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Upon filing, Sen…

Details of DHS agreement reveal risks of Trump administration’s use of Social Security data for voter citizenship checks | The Highland County Press

This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, it was supposed to validate the Trump administration’s push to harness data from across federal agencies to expose illicit voting and stiffen immigration enforcement.