June 30, 2026
Los Angeles, Calif. (June 30, 2026) — The California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) today welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding birthright citizenship — but made clear that this ruling cannot be separated from the devastating harm the same Court inflicted on immigrant communities just days ago, when it handed President Trump two sweeping victories in his campaign to dismantle every protection that allows immigrant families to live with dignity in this country.
“We are relieved the Court refused to let President Trump erase birthright citizenship with the stroke of a pen,” said Masih Fouladi, Executive Director of the California Immigrant Policy Center. “But we cannot celebrate while people with Temporary Protected Status are being pushed toward deportation and asylum seekers are being turned away at our border. Trump’s xenophobic executive order targeting U.S.-born children caused real fear and real harm — and even with today’s win, the assault on immigrant families has not stopped. It has not even slowed down.”
On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an executive order seeking to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to immigrant parents — an order that legal scholars across the political spectrum immediately recognized as flatly unconstitutional. The Court was right to reject it. But last week, that same Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian nationals — dismissing clear evidence that those terminations were driven by racial animus — and revived a policy designed to block asylum seekers at the southern border from having their claims heard. Together, these rulings expose a Supreme Court majority willing to expand executive power over immigrant lives with little meaningful check.
TPS, birthright citizenship, and protections for people fleeing harm are not separate causes. They are the same families — parents trying to provide stability, children growing up in uncertainty, communities fighting to stay whole. When this administration comes for one, it comes for all.
CIPC calls on Governor Newsom and the California Legislature to act with urgency — to protect TPS holders and asylum seekers in our state, and to ensure California remains a place where all people can access the support and safety they need. Today’s birthright ruling shows that some protections can hold when we fight for them. But the fight is far from over.
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