Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined her fellow Democratic attorneys general from 22 other states and the District of Columbia in filing an amicus brief in support of birthright citizenship.
The brief was filed in the Trump v. Barbara case the U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last year that banned birthright citizenship, which allows kids born in America to become citizens regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
“The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ ” the executive order said.
According to Mayes, the 14th Amendment is “crystal clear: If you are born in the United States, you are an American citizen.
“President Trump does not have the power to change that with the stroke of a pen — no matter what he thinks,” she said.
