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Mother’s Status Determines Citizenship
Supreme Court rules 5-4
Tuan Ahn Nguyen grew up as a “normal” hapa child in Texas. He attended American schools, had American friends and an American father. He was considered a foreign-born permanent resident of the United States.
All that changed, however, when he turned 22 — and was sentenced to two counts of sexual assault against a minor.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 11 that Nguyen was subject to deportation back to Vietnam because he had breached his right to stay in the United States by committing a federal crime.
Despite his father’s citizenship, Nguyen leave the country because his estranged Vietnamese mother is not an American citizen. By a narrow ruling of 5-4, the Court set a precedent, stating that different statuses of citizenship of parents do not follow the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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