ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. They determined that any person born in the U.S. is a citizen, regardless of their parents’ citizenship status.
This week on Empire State Weekly, Murad Awawdeh, President of the New York Immigration Coalition, gave insight into the impact the ruling had on the state’s immigrant population. He also reacted to President Donald Trump’s push to try to limit birthright citizenship with congressional legislation.
“And even this, ‘We’re gonna continue fighting against birthright citizenship,’ as if the kids are the problem, when we know it’s government failure that continues to be the problem, and rhetoric like this is really the problem instead of uniting people… Our country is turning 250 years old… We were founded on a fight for freedom, and to this day we’re fighting for those freedoms,” said Awawdeh.
Also this week, Michael Belsky, a partner with the law firm Tully Rinckey, spoke about citizens’ rights when stopped by police during DWI enforcement. He gave insight into the negative long-term impacts of DWI charges.
“You could lose your license, depending on how many DWIs you have, where you can’t drive at all, or that, again, you may get a conditional license where you can only go to and from work and to possibly get medication or doctors, so you’re severely restricted if you get caught,” said Belsky.
