It was announced yesterday that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc (CLINIC) filed an amicus curiae with the Supreme Court regarding Trump’s Executive Order 14160 – Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship. The executive order was written simply to define the extent to which citizenship may be conferred or denied upon those born to mothers who are not citizens of the United States. To this purpose, it states:
It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.
There is nothing unreasonable or immoral about this at all, but the USCCB and CLINIC decided to moralize it to such a degree that they have established an imaginary intrinsic right to such citizenship rooted in a bizarre notion of “human dignity.”
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TAKE ACTION: Contact Bishop Soto, Chairman of CLINIC, and Archbishop Coakley, President of the USCCB, and let them know what you think.