Breaking Birthright Citizenship order blocked by Judge

[AZJonnie]

57. However, while this is (entirely ridiculously) a subject of litigation

ICE agents (and who knows, probably military) will be fanning out looking for 'illegals'. Currently a child born in the US cannot be deported. But if his/her parents lack citizenship, the parent(s) can be. That's always been the case. It just was often not done. Now, it will be, and when the parents are rounded up, the ICE agents will tell the children 'your citizenship may not be real anymore, so you better just leave with your parents we're shipping out!'. Meanwhile his minions in the Congress will work on ways to make it difficult for those kids to come back to the US after their citizenship has been affirmed by the courts. Then THOSE laws will be in the courts for years.

And at least as importantly to him, while litigation is ongoing, the less undocumented people will purposefully come and have children here. Which does, in fact, happen. Basically Trump can get a fair bit of what he wants here, even by losing on this EO in the end. The longer the court cases goes on, the more young immigrant citizens will end up willingly leaving, and the fewer will end up being born here.

On edit: Oh, and one more thought. Someone, somewhere, some agency or office I assume is in charge of 'determining/documenting which people are US citizens', right? Assuming that's a federal position Trump controls, he simply tells that office that they're not to 'officially record' any newborn as a citizen unless >0 parents prove they are here 'legally'. Then that's a whole other court case and it's plausible that nobody's specifically wrote a law to account for a POTUS being such a dick as this. If people aren't 'documented' as citizens, they effectively are not.