The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow a ban on birthright citizenship in about half of the country for children born to undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors.

His order to end birthright citizenship was blocked in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington. Read more at straitstimes.com.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court in a series of emergency appeals Thursday to allow him to move forward with plans to end birthright citizenship, elevating a fringe legal theory that several lower courts have resoundingly rejected.