04/01/2026
Denial of citizenship is a deprivation of ‘property and life and all that makes life worth living.’” Trump’s order means “countless children born on U.S. soil would be rendered undocumented and subject to removal from the United States. An untold number would become effectively stateless.
“U.S.-born children would be forced to live at constant risk of exploitation or deportation to a country they have never known,” the brief declares.
Such a situation would be a massive downward pressure on not just wages of the working-class majority but on all of their living conditions.
The nation’s largest labor federation listed powerful examples. Its first involved two medical specialists in the U.S. after training at the University of Illinois-Chicago and overseas in transplantation surgery. Both used initials to preserve their privacy. Both are in the U.S. on special visas. The husband is a member of the Committee of Interns and Residents, a Service Employees International Union sector. Their first child, born in the U.S., turns a year old in April.
The couple “hope to establish meaningful careers, raise a family, and contribute to the United States,” the brief says. The wife, Dr. G., says they want to settle here both to help low- and moderate-income people receive outstanding medical care and because “the United States is the world’s leading country in the field of medical innovation and research.”
