Trump to ask US supreme court to reconsider birthright citizenship ruling

Trump at the Nato summit in Ankara on Wednesday. Photograph: Jumeau Alexis/ABACA/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Trump at the Nato summit in Ankara on Wednesday. Photograph: Jumeau Alexis/ABACA/Shutterstock Trump to ask US supreme court to reconsider birthright citizenship ruling Request for rehearing comes after Fox News report of Texas hospital advertising maternity services in Mexico Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would ask the US supreme court to reconsider its ruling that the 14th amendment to the US constitution guarantees birthright citizenship in light of what he described as shocking new evidence: a hospital in Texas advertising its services to expectant mothers in Mexico on a pair of billboards. “Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with ‘Deliveries starting at $4000’, the president wrote on his social media platform, in what appeared to be a wild exaggeration of a Fox News report on just two billboards. US supreme court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump agenda Read more The president went on to claim that the justices “will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision”. The high court last month rejected Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship ⁠in the US, ruling that his directive violated language in ​the US constitution’s 14th ‌amendment that confers citizenship ‌to those born in the United States who are “subject ‌to the jurisdiction thereof”. The US supreme court rarely grants requests to rehear cases and has not done so after issuing a ruling in an argued case in decades. Fox News confirmed this week that a single hospital in Mission, Texas, five miles from the border with Reynosa, Mexico, had advertised “delivery packages” in south Texas on two Spanish-language billboards in Mexico, and on social media. The Fox News report was based on a photograph of one billboard posted on social media in April by Mayra Flores, a Trump-backed former Republican congresswoman from Texas who was born in Mexico and is running to return to Congress. The image has been recirculated recently on social media, as Trump supporters have called for a total and complete shutdown of pregnant women being allowed to enter the United States after the president’s attempt to deny birthright citizenship to children born to non-citizens in the US was rejected by the supreme court last month. Flores, who said she took the photograph in Reynosa, did not initially claim that the billboard was inviting Mexicans to give birth in the US to obtained US citizenship for their children. She expressed outrage, instead, at the idea that the price of the birthing services – $3,950 for a natural birth or $5,525 for a caesarean section – was far lower than the typical cost for American citizens. She offered no proof for her claim that the prices were available only to foreign citizens at the hospital. The Texas hospital, Mission Regional Medica