U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has made over 10,000 arrests in the last five days, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source. This surge in enforcement comes after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship, upholding the long-standing policy that most children born in the U.S. will automatically become citizens, even if their parents are living in the country illegally.
Supreme Court Ruling
The court cited the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution as the basis for the decision, stating that children born in the U.S. to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the U.S. and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
President Trump responded to the ruling, urging Congress to amend the Constitution to pave a path to abolishing birthright citizenship. ‘No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship,’ Trump posted on Truth Social.
ICE Operations
As ICE seeks to increase arrests, agitators have been mobilizing across the country, demanding better living conditions for those detained in federal facilities and calling for reforms to ICE operational protocols. A Fox News Digital investigation found that protests outside the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, were not a spontaneous grassroots uprising, but rather the product of years of coordinated planning by a network of well-funded, highly organized groups.
DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated that a majority of arrests involve illegal immigrants who have previously been charged or convicted of a crime. ‘Since Day One, DHS law enforcement has been delivering on President Trump’s promise to the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists,’ Bis explained.
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