US Supreme Court holds up birthright citizenship

The US Supreme Court upholds a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump's executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States

illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

A divided Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the right of those born in the US to parents who are in the country illegally or temporary to be American citizens.

Sen. Alex Padilla, a democrat from California lauded the United States' Supreme Court decision to uphold the 14th Amendment.

Alex Padilla Democratic Senator California said "My fellow Americans, because that's what we are,

and that's what the Supreme Court upheld this morning.

The notion that goes back more than a hundred years. And the Constitution couldn't say it more clearly. If you are born in the United States, you are a citizen, period.

It doesn't get more clear than that.And so the Supreme Court got it right this morningbecause we know that right, that fundamental right,that constitutional right has been under attackby (U.S. President) Donald Trump."

Padilla is not convinced the president will let this stand."We know Donald Trump's not going to stop.

His attacks will keep coming.He'll work on another executive order or try to getthe Republicans in Congress to pass another billor he'll do something else to try to minimize who getsto be an American, who gets to be a citizen.

And so our work to resist will continue."Speaker of the House, Republican Mike Johnson said the 14th Amendment is being abused by people who are coming to the US to have children

in the "birthing tourism trend." He added "It's not illegal but it is a practise the Trump administration has tried to reduce."

For Aura Espinosa, an immigrant based in Houston, the decision offers hope that she and her husband can expand their family.

Basically, it's a relief to feel that the rights and the US citizenship for future kids will still remain with their citizenship.

Me as a DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) applicant and my husband being a DACA applicant as well, puts us at ease. If we were to have more kids, right now we have he's a DACA recipient, I'm a DACA recipient. With the uncertainty of what's going to happen to DACA that we could be left without documentation, that puts us at ease because we know that if we were to have another child, that child will still remain with the US citizen like my other three kids.