June 30, 2025

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SAN DIEGO, CA — The Haitian Bridge Alliance forcefully condemns the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision  that limits nationwide injunctions and clears a dangerous path for the Trump Administration’s attacks on birthright citizenship to proceed in large parts of the country. Although procedural, the ruling did not address the core constitutional question under the 14th Amendment, instead creating immediate legal chaos and fear nationwide .

By restricting federal courts from issuing broad injunctions beyond individual plaintiffs, the Court has effectively dismantled crucial protections and created a patchwork system where a child’s right to citizenship now depends on location and local politics. About 150,000 babies are born in the U.S. each year to immigrant parents, many of them Haitian, who rely on birthright citizenship to secure their children’s futures.

“This procedural dodge has plunged Haitian babies—born on U.S. soil—into an existential identity crisis,” said Guerline Jozef, Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. “A child’s right to citizenship should not hinge on geography or litigation timing. We are facing a constitutional crisis, not a legal technicality. Haitian families deserve clarity, protection, and dignity—not chaos created by political gamesmanship.”

Critically, the Court did not decide whether the 14th Amendment, which has guaranteed birthright citizenship since 1868 and was affirmed in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), protects these children. That fundamental issue remains pending and threatens to escalate this humanitarian and constitutional crisis.

The Haitian Bridge Alliance urgently calls for action:

• Congress must pass federal legislation reaffirming unconditional birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.

• State governments must challenge the executive order in federal courts to maintain safeguards for all children.
• Human rights groups should launch coordinated legal challenges, provide rapid-response legal aid, and mobilize communities to defend vulnerable families.

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ABOUT HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE

Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), also known as “The Bridge”, is a grassroots community organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies, foreign policy, and provides migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services, with a particular focus on Black migrants, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. HBA also seeks to elevate the issues unique to Black migrants and build solidarity and a collective movement toward policy change.
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