Reet Sachdeva (name changed on request), an Indian-origin software engineer based in Providence, Rhode Island, moved to the US around six years ago. She and her husband, also an Indian, are both on H-1B visas.
The 36-year-old is pregnant with her second child—something that she confesses to having planned sooner than later so that the child can be born before the birthright citizenship ban, which was one of US President Donald Trump's key poll promises, comes into force.
"We wanted to have the baby as soon as we could. My due date is in July-end, so hopefully the baby will be born before the nationwide injunction is lifted," she tells The Quint.
Legal battles over Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship continued last week when a New Hampshire federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction that will prevent federal officials from enforcing the order nationally. The injunction is on hold for seven days to allow the Trump administration to appeal.
The 10 July order comes days after the Supreme Court decision on 27 June which limited the ability of lower court judges to issue universal injunctions to block executive orders nationwide. That ruling was seen as a victory for Trump as it removes yet another impediment on the path to the administration's prospective birthright citizenship ban.