On the first day of his inauguration, Donald Trump signed an order to end the right of the right to live in the Constitution. Thousands of expectations in the United States had to consider that the baby was suddenly born in a legal range.
Among them is Monica, a woman who expects her first child after escaping political persecution in Venezuela. If Trump’s order is standing, a Monica baby is born in a stateless manner.
“I was very shocked,” she told Guardian. “For me, for many mothers, this is the right in the constitution of this country, so I can’t imagine it just because they take it.”
It was particularly unstable for couples who wanted to be their parents for years. “We wanted to organize our lives to always have children,” Monica said. “I finally found stability.”
Monica and her husband left Venezuela in 2019 under the threat of political persecution. She found that she was pregnant more than six years since she arrived in the United States. “I laughed, cried, thanked to God.” On that day, instead of going to a supermarket, she went to buy a small baby’s shoes and left them for her husband. “He didn’t expect it! But he was very excited.”
Two weeks later, Trump took office and signed an administrative order to end its citizenship.
It is impossible to seek Venezuela’s citizenship for Venezuela children. Monica and her husband are the frank critics of their authority authority and their dictative leaders Nikolaz Maduro, and contacting them can be dangerous. In addition, there is no Venezuela consulate in the United States. In other words, there is no way for a couple to register a newborn.
Trump’s efforts to end the Great Protection Citizens Rights face legal issues for the time being. At least four major litigation, including Monica’s plaintiff, has been filed.
The Guardian has not disclosed Monica’s surname to protect her from retaliation. Her surname is also omitted when she is trying to order, along with the other four pregnant immigrant women, CASA and the protection project (ASAP). (Monica is also a member of ASAP). The lawsuit was submitted by the Georger Town Law’s Constitution and Protection Research Institute in the Federal District Court in Maryland.
On Thursday, Seattle judge temporarily blocked the order and called it “blatantly unconstitutional.” However, there are still questions about the meaning, and families like Monica remain in the range as the court passes through the court.
Leidy Perez, ASAP policy and communication director, states that the immigration is ambiguous for the presidential ordinance’s textbooks to obscure children excluded from citizenship. This order suggests that a child born from a parent in the United States or temporarily in the United States is not qualified. “Most of our staff are immigrant lawyers, we have decades of experience among all of us, and we have this presidential order, and we are unknown. She even thinks. “
For example, many people seeking asylum have been in the United States for years and have been on the way to stay forever. Is it possible to be exempted from an order? “It’s not clear,” Perez said. Other immigrants, including many non -documented people and temporary protected people, have lived in the United States for decades. “Is it fair to say it is temporary?” She said.
However, if orders are implemented, tens of thousands of children born in the United States every year are eliminated for US citizenship. Many are not documented, potentially stateless, inappropriate, or cannot acquire citizenship from their parents’ home countries. This may create a new generation of generations born in a legal range.
These children are ineligible for many government programs that support low -income families, such as food assistance and subsidy health insurance. Newborns who need intensive care at the hospital are no longer a medical qualification.
The second lawsuit, which is dismissed by the American Citizens’ Freedom Union (ACLU) and some immigration agencies, is a gorgeous citizenship that “prevented the appearance of a genetic level”. It claims that it violates the long -term warranty of the US Constitution for legal precedents. From a complete participation in American life. “
Another legal task brought by San Francisco, San Francisco submitted to 22 Democratic states, Boston, and Seattle, provides thousands of basic care. It claims that it will be left in states and cities to absorb the cost. A child left without subsidies of the federal government.
Such questions and hypotheses consume Monica during her painful illness. “Where do you even register your son or daughter?” She wonder.
She creates a list of all the babies she needs and selects the color of the nursery, and she thinks: Do you know if your baby really was born? “
Occasionally, her heart jumps further -how do she explain that she doesn’t have a nationality when her child is enough to ask? What do they do not belong anywhere?
Her and her husband had been waiting for six years in South Carolina, but her asylasis was processed through a deeply rebounded immigration system. But in the meantime, they began to make life. Monica has a medical degree in Venezuela, and she wants to be finally verified and can practice in the United States. Until then, she was doing gigs for riding share and delivery apps. On the other hand, her husband worked in a company that performs piping, heating and air conditioning. A few years after arriving in the United States, they were able to buy a house with savings.
After pregnancy, she said she was shaking between joy and fear. “You give your child life, but they believe they will give you a life you need.” And if you don’t fight for your baby or your child, Who can do it? “
