Washington, June 29 -- Rep. Pramila Jayapal issued the following press release:
U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, released the following statement regarding today's ruling from the Supreme Court upholding the right to birthright citizenship in the United States in the case of Trump v. Barbara.
"Donald Trump is not a king, and he cannot, with the stroke of a pen, change our Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, and this attempt to overturn it was yet another piece of his anti-immigrant, xenophobic agenda. Today's ruling rightly reaffirms that if you are born in America, you are American, plain and simple....