Attorney General Ellison issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling preserving birthright citizenship:

"It never should’ve taken this long or been this hard. Eighteen months after Donald Trump signed an unconstitutional order attempting to block birthright citizenship, the parents of roughly a quarter-million babies born each year to undocumented or temporary immigrant parents can finally breathe a sigh of relief—but they never should have had to fear for their children’s very identity as Americans. For a year and a half, a sitting president tried to destabilize the 160-year-old Fourteenth Amendment and the 128-year-old Wong Kim Ark decision, treating settled Constitutional guarantees as if they were suggestions he could erase with a pen." – AG Ellison