🛡️ Federal Judge Just Schooled Trump: Birthright Citizenship Order Blocked Nationwide
Judge Laplante uses Supreme Court loophole to shield all newborns from unconstitutional order
😽 Keepin’ It Simple Summary for Younger Readers
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A federal judge ⚖️ in New Hampshire just told President Trump "no way" ❌ to his plan that would have taken away citizenship from babies 👶 born in America if their parents don't have the right paperwork 📝. The judge said this was wrong 🚫 and would hurt families 👪, so he made a rule that protects ALL babies born anywhere in the U.S. 🇺🇸, not just the ones whose families were part of the court case.
This happened because lawyers found a smart way 🧠 around a Supreme Court decision that made it harder to stop bad policies. The judge said being an American citizen is "the greatest privilege in the world" 🌎 and no politician should be able to take that away from babies just because of where their parents came from. While Trump's team will probably try to fight this decision 🥊, for now all babies born in America get to keep their citizenship like the Constitution promises 📜.
🗝️ Takeaways
🎯 Federal Judge Joseph Laplante blocked Trump's birthright citizenship order nationwide through a class-action lawsuit, protecting all babies born after February 20, 2025
⚖️ The ruling cleverly uses a Supreme Court loophole—while the court limited nationwide injunctions, it kept class-action relief available
🛡️ All children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents or those with temporary status remain protected as full citizens under the 14th Amendment
⏱️ The order is stayed for seven days to allow Trump's administration to appeal, meaning the legal fight continues
🤝 This victory demonstrates how rapid organizing and strategic legal work can protect vulnerable communities from unconstitutional attacks
No Mames, They Tried It Again: How Judge Laplante Just Slapped Down Trump's Latest Attack on Our Babies
Por Three Sonorans
July 10, 2025
Órale, here we go again. Just when you think the pendejos in power can't get any more creative with their cruelty, they find new ways to target our children—nuestros niños—before they even take their first breath.
But today, gracias a Dios, a federal judge in New Hampshire had the huevos to tell Donald Trump exactly where he can stick his executive order ending birthright citizenship.
What Just Happened: La Verdad About This Legal Victory
Judge Joseph Laplante issued a nationwide block against Trump's executive order that would have stripped citizenship from babies born to undocumented parents or those with temporary legal status.
But here's the chingón part—he did it through a class-action lawsuit, protecting ALL children born on U.S. soil after February 20, 2025, whose citizenship would be denied under Trump's order.
According to CNN, Laplante didn't mince words, calling his decision "not a close call" and stating that denying citizenship would cause "irreparable harm."
He declared citizenship "the greatest privilege that exists in the world"—words that hit different when you know the fight our people have had to wage just to be recognized as human beings worthy of dignity and rights.
The Supreme Court's Pinche Game
Let's be clear about what led us here. The Supreme Court's June 27 ruling essentially said lower court judges couldn't issue nationwide injunctions blocking Trump's policies anymore.
¿En serio?
So they make it harder for courts to protect people from unconstitutional orders? That's some next-level gaslighting.
But the court left a loophole—class-action lawsuits.
According to SCOTUSblog, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote that while they were limiting nationwide injunctions, they kept "the ability of plaintiffs to get broad relief through class action lawsuits."
Híjole, even she knew this was some constitutional fuckery that needed an escape valve.
¿Por Qué? The Historical Context Our Ancestors Fought For
The 14th Amendment didn't just appear out of thin air, mi gente.
It was forged in the blood and struggle of our Black brothers and sisters after the Civil War, specifically to overturn the racist Dred Scott decision that said Black people could never be citizens. Trump's executive order claims that children born to undocumented parents aren't "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States.
¿Qué clase de pendejada es esa?
If these babies aren't subject to U.S. jurisdiction, then why can they be arrested? Why do they have to follow U.S. laws?
Trump's twisted logic would make second-class citizens out of children based on their parents' paperwork—the same kind of racist logic that kept our abuelos from voting, owning land, or being seen as fully human.
As Indigenous peoples of these lands, we know what it means to have our belonging questioned. Our ancestors were here long before there were borders, before there were papers, before there was a United States.
Yet here we are, having to fight for recognition that el pinche papel doesn't determine who belongs on Turtle Island.
How This Affects You: The Real Talk
If you're pregnant, undocumented, or on a temporary visa, this ruling means your baby born after February 20 is protected—for now.
If you're a mixed-status family, you don't have to worry about your newborn being denied a birth certificate or passport. If you're Dreamers planning families, your children's citizenship is safe.
But let's not get too comfortable, carnales.
The ruling is stayed for seven days to allow Trump's administration to appeal. You know they will. This fight is far from over.
The Resistance Continues: La Lucha Sigue
What's beautiful about today's victory is how quickly the advocates moved. According to the American Immigration Council, within hours of the Supreme Court's June ruling, immigration lawyers had filed amended complaints and class-action requests.
Eso es como se hace—that's how you fight fascism, with preparation, strategy, and chingazos when necessary.
The ACLU's Cody Wofsy, who argued the case, said it perfectly: "This ruling is a huge victory and will help protect the citizenship of all children born in the United States, as the Constitution intended."
But we can't rely on lawyers alone. This is about organizing our communities, know our rights, and making sure every family understands what's at stake.
The Bigger Picture: Environmental Justice and Border Militarization
Here in the borderlands, we see how these attacks on citizenship connect to environmental racism and border militarization.
When babies can't get birth certificates, they can't access healthcare. When families live in fear of deportation, they can't report environmental crimes by corporations poisoning our water and air.
The same government that wants to deny citizenship to nuestros niños is the one that builds walls through sacred burial grounds, that lets mining companies destroy Mother Earth, that treats the Sonoran Desert like a military zone instead of the sacred space our ancestors called home.
¡Órale! What You Can Do Right Now
Know Your Rights: If you're pregnant or have newborns, contact organizations like the ACLU, MALDEF, or local immigrant rights groups to understand how this ruling protects you.
Get Involved Locally: Join or support groups fighting for immigrant rights in your community. In the borderlands, organizations like the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, Coalición de Derechos Humanos, and BorderLinks are doing essential work.
Vote in ALL Elections: Not just federal races—school boards, city councils, and county supervisors make decisions that directly impact mixed-status families every day.
Support Digital Security: Help families protect themselves by learning about digital safety. ICE and Border Patrol are watching social media and using technology to hunt our people.
Build Sanctuary: Create actual safe spaces in your communities—churches, schools, community centers that pledge to protect immigrant families.
Fight Environmental Racism: Connect immigration justice to environmental justice. The same corporations exploiting border communities are the ones benefiting from scared, vulnerable workers who can't organize.
Esperanza in Dark Times
Hermanos y hermanas, I won't lie to you—these are dark times.
When a country founded by immigrants tries to deny citizenship to babies, when walls cut through Indigenous lands, when children are caged and families torn apart, it's easy to feel hopeless.
But today's victory reminds us that resistance works.
Every time they try to dehumanize us, every time they try to erase our children's birthright, we push back. We organize. We vote. We fight in the courts and in the streets and in our communities.
Our ancestors survived colonization, slavery, genocide, and Jim Crow. Our abuelas crossed deserts and rivers carrying our parents on their backs. Our people built this country with their hands and their hearts and their dreams for their children.
No van a parar a nosotros. They will not stop us.
This is just one battle in a longer war for the soul of this continent. But today, in a courtroom in New Hampshire, justice won. Today, our babies' birthright was protected. Today, the Constitution meant what it said—that all persons born in the United States are citizens.
Así se hace. That's how it's done.
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👍 Some good news, even if not permanent yet. 👏
It is about time that someone on OUR side started finding loopholes. I LOVE this sentence: << The ruling cleverly uses a Supreme Court loophole—while the court limited nationwide injunctions, it kept class-action relief available. >>
Sadly, I very much fear the Extreme Court will next rule on class-action relief, and by a 6-3 vote (based on ideology, not common sense), they'll effectively end that provision of the 14th Amendment.