AABA Chicago has signed onto an amicus brief filed by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a district court’s preliminary injunction order regarding Executive Order 14160.

As stated in the brief: “The plain text of the Fourteenth Amendment and longstanding historical precedent should lead to the inevitable conclusion that EO 14160 is patently unconstitutional.”

AABA joins NAPABA in stating that the Trump administration’s legal arguments distort the holding of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the 1898 case that established the principle that people born in the United States were citizens even if their parents were not citizens.