# US birthright citizenship: Supreme court rules against Trump's ban

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[00:00] An impromptu rally at the US Supreme

[00:02] Court as immigrant rights groups

[00:04] celebrate the court ruling that says

[00:06] every child born in the US will continue

[00:10] to be American citizens.

[00:12] On his first day back in office, US

[00:14] President Donald Trump signed an

[00:16] executive order saying children born to

[00:18] undocumented immigrants or people in the

[00:20] US on a temporary basis, like a tourist

[00:23] visa, would no longer be automatically

[00:26] American.

[00:28] It was such a priority, the president

[00:30] broke precedence and became the first

[00:32] sitting president to attend oral

[00:34] arguments when the justices heard the

[00:36] case.

[00:38] Shortly after Tuesday's Supreme Court

[00:39] ruling, President Trump took to social

[00:42] media calling the decision bad for our

[00:44] country arguing he can change it in

[00:47] Congress through legislation adding no

[00:49] long and unwieldy constitutional

[00:51] amendment is necessary.

[00:53] Some conservative politicians are saying

[00:55] that Congress can intervene because of

[00:57] the decision from Justice Brett

[00:58] Kavanaugh. He said it didn't violate the

[01:00] 14th Amendment, but it did violate a

[01:02] federal law that Congress could change.

[01:05] Still, if it came back to the court, it

[01:06] would likely be a 5-4 decision to still

[01:09] keep birthright citizenship in place.

[01:12] Still, Republican lawmakers say they

[01:14] will move ahead even if it means looking

[01:16] into a constitutional amendment.

[01:19] It's a big challenge to amend the

[01:20] Constitution. It's only happened 27

[01:21] times in our whole nation's history. And

[01:24] the reason is because you got to have

[01:25] 2/3 of the both chambers of Congress and

[01:27] 3/4 of the states to ratify.

[01:30] Democrats are promising to fight any

[01:32] attempts.

[01:33] But we know that this is not the end of

[01:35] President Trump's attack on the

[01:36] Constitution.

[01:37] We cannot let up this fight to protect

[01:39] our fundamental rights.

[01:41] The American dream is not a guarantee to

[01:44] us. We have to fight for it each and

[01:47] every day.

[01:49] For more than 150 years, birthright

[01:51] citizenship has been a pillar of the US

[01:53] Constitution. Now the highest court in

[01:55] the land says it should remain one.

[01:58] However, the US president is promising

[02:00] to keep trying to remove that

[02:02] fundamental right. Patty Culhane, Al

[02:05] Jazeera, Washington.