{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Radio Chatskill","title":"As Supreme Court Weighs Birthright Citizenship, Rural New York Families Brace For Impact","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":872,"description":"A landmark legal battle over birthright citizenship is now before the U.S. Supreme Court — and advocates who work with immigrant families in rural New York say the outcome could reshape everyday life for communities that depend on immigrant labor and leadership.At issue is Executive Order 14160, signed by President Trump, which seeks to limit who is recognized as a U.S. citizen under the 14th Amendment. The order would deny citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country without legal status or on temporary visas — upending more than 125 years of legal precedent.A coalition of civil rights and legal advocacy organizations, including Rural and Migrant Ministry (RMM), has filed an amicus curiae — or \"friend of the court\" — brief urging the justices to uphold that precedent. \"What is at stake is basically the overturning of a precedent that's over a hundred years old, which basically states that if you are born on the soil of the United States of America, you are an American citizen,\" said Juana Cortes de Torres, Director of the Immigrant Legal Rights Project at Rural and Migrant Ministry.A Century of PrecedentThe brief filed by RMM and its partners leans heavily on United States v. Wong Kim Ark, an 1898 Supreme Court decision that affirmed birthright citizenship for children born in the United States regardless of their parents' national origin or immigration status.\"It is one of the first cases that basically explains that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen under the Constitution,\" Cortes de Torres said. \"That precedent memorializes the words of the 14th Amendment.\"From a legal standpoint, she argued, no executive order can accomplish what the administration is attempting. \"In order to do that, that would be tantamount to amending the Constitution without the role of Congress,\" she said. \"And in my opinion, that would be chaos.\"Twenty-two state attorneys general have also joined the legal fight to block the order.\"A Moment of Crisis...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q7XXsnSXT_u4mZLCn3chUorwDmUD_kWiB272D6emB18/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80N2Uy/OGY5MWUwZThkYTEw/NDVkZGM2ZGZkZDIw/ZjliOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}