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Fight Back: Defending Immigrant Rights in 2025

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Jennifer Chowdhury
Jan 24, 2025
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Trump’s immigration policies are crossing dangerous lines. These aren’t just policy shifts—they’re calculated attacks on human rights, pushing boundaries to target vulnerable communities.

Here’s a look at what’s at stake and who’s stepping up to protect those at risk.

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Birthright Citizenship Under Attack

Trump’s executive order seeks to end automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents. This would be a direct challenge to the 14th Amendment, which guarantees that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen. If successful, this policy could strip citizenship from thousands of children, particularly within immigrant communities, creating widespread legal uncertainty for families and children who have grown up as American citizens.

In response to this executive order, a federal judge temporarily halted …

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