FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Laura Trask
Director, Development and Communications
[email protected]
Washington, D.C. (July 1, 2025) – Ayuda stands in strong condemnation of the Supreme Court decision to limit nationwide injunctions on Executive Order 14160, handed down on Friday. The Executive Order, announced on President Trump’s first day in office, denies citizenship to U.S.-born children without at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident. This recklessly cruel order upends 150 years of understanding of rights enshrined in the Constitution and undermines the safety and wellbeing of immigrant parents and children.
The Supreme Court decision, while not ruling on the constitutionality of the case, allows the administration to move forward with implementation of the Executive Order against anyone who is not a plaintiff with standing to sue. Allowing the Executive Order to apply to some parts of the country, while the litigation addressing the constitutionality continues, would sow chaos and confusion as well as put many immigrant families in imminent danger.
Ayuda welcomes the continued advocacy of CASA and the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) which have filed a nationwide class action lawsuit to be ruled on before the Supreme Court decision goes into effect in 30 days.
Earlier this month, Ayuda joined 34 nonprofit organizations serving immigrant survivors in filing an amicus brief supporting the plaintiff immigrant mothers in Trump v. CASA, Inc. As stated in the amicus brief, undocumented immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking would be exposed to renewed or ongoing violence if this Executive Order goes into effect. To establish their child’s citizen status, they would be forced to engage with their U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident abuser, thereby reinforcing patterns of exploitative control and remaining in the vicious cycle of violence.
It is the Constitution, not an administration intent on demonizing, scapegoating, and terrorizing immigrants, that decides who is an American. And the Constitution is clear: the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship to anyone born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction.
Ayuda stands with immigrant parents and their children. We call for the courts to uphold the Fourteenth Amendment and maintain constitutionally established protections against executive overreach.
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About Ayuda:
Ayuda provides direct legal, social, and language access services to low-income immigrants in Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Since 1973, Ayuda has served more than 150,000 immigrants throughout the region. Ayuda is the only nonprofit service provider in the area that provides a wide range of immigration and family law assistance, social services, and language access support for all immigrants – including women, men, and children – from anywhere in the world. Visit www.ayuda.com to learn more.