SK Hynix hits the US stock market as demand for memory chips soars amid AI frenzy

• July 10, 2026

SK Hynix, one of the world’s largest makers of memory chips, is hitting the U.S. stock market at a time when demand for its chips is outpacing its ability to make them thanks to the frenzy over artificial intelligence.

The company is already one of the largest in South Korea, along with Samsung Electronics, and is traded publicly on Seoul’s Kospi index. Even with a recent pullback, the Kospi is up 77% so far this year and SK Hynix shares have more than tripled.

SK Hynix priced its American depositary receipts, or ADRs, at $149 each Thursday. At that price, the offering of 177.9 million ADRs raised proceeds of $26.5 billion, making it the biggest-ever initial share sale in the U.S. by a foreign company. The ADRs are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq later Friday.

The company has a dominant position globally for high bandwidth memory, which is essential for the development of advanced AI technology. SK Hynix recently entered a partnership with Wall Street’s most valuable company, Nvidia, for advanced memory chips as AI infrastructure expands globally.

Increasing demand for AI has been driving a surge in profits for chipmakers. Memory chips have become more expensive as demand outpaces supply along with the advancement of artificial intelligence technology. Technology giant Apple recently announced an increase in prices for Macs and iPads because of the jump in price for memory chips.

The U.S. is the SK Hynix’s largest market, accounting for 68.8% of its revenue last year. It is planning an expansion that includes building its first U.S. production facility, located in Indiana. Overall, the company had revenue of just under $65 billion in 2025. That helped profits double to about $28 billion.

The company recently joined with Samsung and the government in announcing plans to invest a combined 800 trillion won ($518 billion) in building a new computer chipmaking hub in South Korea’s southwest region, part of national efforts to expand investment beyond the greater Seoul metropolitan area, the country’s economic center and heart of its semiconductor sector.

The promise of growing profits has catapulted stock prices within the tech sector, particularly for chipmakers. Micron Technology’s stock value more than tripled in 2025 and is on pace to more than triple again in 2026. Nvidia’s stock had similar growth several years ago and notched more relatively modest gains in 2025.

Big chipmakers have become the most valuable and influential companies on Wall Street. Their high stock values give them outsized influence over Wall Street and major indexes have been setting records mostly because of the tech sector.

Shares in SK Hynix traded in Seoul slipped 0.3% on Friday.

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Wall Street trading is mixed, oil prices yo-yo after unclaimed attacks on Iran

• July 10, 2026

By CHAN HO-HIM and MATT OTT, AP Business Writers

Wall Street was mixed in muted trading Friday and oil prices swung between small gains and losses after a series of mysterious, unclaimed airstrikes hit Iran. The attacks came after the U.S. said it finished its offensive and raised questions of who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic.

Futures for the S&P 500 ticked down 0.1%, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.1%. Futures for the technology-heavy Nasdaq fell 0.4%.

The attacks across the southern part of Iran come as they and the U.S. insist the Strait of Hormuz must be open and free to ships to transit. Iran insists the strait, through which about a fifth of all oil and natural gas passes, must now be under its sole control and that vessels should begin to pay fees to Tehran — even though the world for decades has considered it an international waterway.

Oil prices yo-yoed again on Friday as global oil supplies remained under pressure due to a limited numbers of vessels able to cross the Strait of Hormuz.

Brent crude, the international standard, gained 78 cents to $77.08 per barrel. It was trading near $72 a barrel before the war began in late February.

Benchmark U.S. crude added 65 cents to $72.73 a barrel.

Iran’s grip on the strait during the conflict led to a global energy crisis, though oil prices have sharply dropped since wartime highs of $120 a barrel.

The International Energy Agency on Friday released its monthly report projecting that 2026 will end with a 1 million barrel-a-day decline in demand, the first annual drop in demand since the COVID pandemic six years ago.

In equities trading, Delta Air Lines fell 1.6%, even after it beat second-quarter profit targets as revenue jumped 14%. The airline said it spent more on fuel than in any quarter in its history.

Elsewhere, in Europe at midday, Britain’s FTSE 100, France’s CAC 40 and Germany’s DAX were all basically unchanged.

In Asian trading, South Korea’s Kospi gained 2.5% to 7,475.94, recovering some of its losses from earlier in the week. Shares in memory chipmaker SK Hynix, whose debut on the Nasdaq in New York is set for Friday, fell 0.3% in Seoul.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.2% to 68,557.73. SoftBank Group, a key investor in OpenAI, jumped 10.7%, while chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron added 2.7%.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.6% to 24,175.12 and the Shanghai Composite index fell 1% to 3,996.16.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.5% to 8,806.00.

India’s Sensex added 1.2%.

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Local governments want you to pony up for their wild ride

• July 10, 2026

SACRAMENTO — California local governments of every size are crying poor mouth as they struggle with budget shortfalls amid what many officials predictably call a “perfect storm” of troubling economic news, including the end of COVID-19 funds that had propped up their budgets for a few years. As ABC News reported, “From rising costs to slowing revenue, local governments are now being forced to make difficult financial decisions as they work to balance their budgets.”

The “difficult financial decisions” caused me to laugh out loud given that, well, local government officials’ idea of a tough decision always comes down to one or all of three easy, go-to choices: Raise taxes on their residents, cut public services (especially ones the public relies on the most), or lobby Sacramento for a bailout. If one traces the history of local government spending, one sees the same story playing every few years.

Back in 2019, before the feds sent $600 billion in pandemic relief funds to California’s state and local governments, our governments were likewise sounding the fiscal alarms. The California State Auditor that year explained that “more than half of California’s cities were listed as being at a moderate to high risk of experiencing fiscal distress,” per a summary from Reason. In 2013, commentators suggested that myriad California cities were facing a financial crisis due to some combination of apparently never-before imagined economic travails.

California has the nation’s highest tax burden, yet no matter how much taxpayers send to Sacramento or City Hall, it’s really never enough. But it doesn’t take much digging to get a handle on the real source of the problem. For instance, in May the city of Los Angeles passed a $15-billion budget. In 2020-2021, the city’s budget was $10.65 billion. That’s more than a 40% boost. Have public services gotten that much better in a few years? See, now you’re laughing out loud.

It’s easy to mock big, incompetent cities. Their officials deserve all the scorn sent their way, of course. But smaller cities and placid suburbs aren’t really any better, even in supposedly conservative Orange County. Last July, financial consultants for the city of Orange warned that the city could be facing a municipal bankruptcy in a few years. Not surprisingly, the city is asking voters to increase taxes: a hotel tax and a “temporary” sales tax.

I don’t even know why local officials go through this temporary pretense, as we all know tax increases never go away. Santa Ana, for instance, will ask voters in November to make its temporary 1.5% sales tax permanent. “Elected leaders publicly said Tuesday it will be up to voters to decide if they want to continue to enjoy services and programs like graffiti removal, fixing parks and keeping emergency response times at the same level by weighing in on the ballot measure,” according to the VoiceofOC.

That’s the classic shakedown: Either give us more money to provide the public services that you pay us to provide or we won’t be able to provide those public services. Santa Ana, by the way, has the nasty habit of dramatically boosting spending at the behest of its public-employee unions even when it doesn’t have the money to do so. Then it threatens residents with cuts in public safety, and then residents reliably agree to higher taxes.

Where did those billions of dollars in COVID funds go? We’ve all read about many unnecessary and wasteful projects, and occasional corruption, but lots of cash funded law-enforcement budgets rather than programs that were meant to help people navigate an economic shutdown. Police spending is naturally popular given concerns about crime, but policing is a nuts-and-bolts function that should be sustainably funded from normal revenues. This shell game provides a clue to the fundamental problem.

City officials are incapable of saying no to public-employee unions. Those unions, especially the police and firefighting variety, are typically the most politically powerful lobbies at the local level. All these other discussions — tax measures, cuts to arts and transportation programs, calls for additional monies from Sacramento and Washington, D.C. — obscure the central fact that cities are basically jobs and pension providers rather than public-service providers. Employee lobbies are so powerful that officials can never make one particular hard choice.

After the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the media and elected officials focused on the need for stepped-up firefighting efforts and related budget constraints. Yet no one mentioned this tidbit: Of the top 10 best-paid Los Angeles city officials, seven of them worked in the fire department with total compensation packages ranging from $598,000 to $802,000, per the Transparent California database. Los Angeles isn’t that much of an outlier.

I don’t know, but could these numbers help explain why the city never has enough cash? Consider that simple question before you believe that local officials couldn’t see the latest budget crisis coming.

Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute and a member of the Southern California News Group editorial board. Write to him at sgreenhut@rstreet.org.

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Donald Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process

• July 10, 2026

By BILL BARROW

President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizenship before registering.

The White House on Friday confirmed the executive action against members of the Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grants to states, oversees the testing of voting systems and maintains the national voter registration forms.

It’s the latest move in the Republican president’s effort to expand White House influence over how U.S. elections are conducted and comes after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave the president new personnel authority to fire members of independent agency boards.

“The President, and head of the Executive Branch, reserves the right to remove individuals that may not be totally aligned with the important task of securing America’s elections and ensuring every legal vote is counted. The Slaughter decision gives the President precedence to do so,” said a White House statement to AP.

The president removed the commission’s two Democratic members, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland. The panel’s Republican member, Christy McCormick resigned. Former Republican commissioner Donald Palmer already had left his post voluntarily earlier this year.

The changes were first reported by VoteBeat, a news outlet that covers elections and voting across the U.S.

While the White House statement did not offer a specific reason for Trump’s action, the commission has previously declined to change the national voter registration form to require documentation of an applicant’s U.S. citizenship, as Trump’s urged in a sweeping March 2025 executive order on U.S. elections. A federal judge blocked the order, ruling it exceeds the president’s authority since the U.S. Constitution grants authority over elections management and oversight to Congress and the states. The administration has indicated it will appeal.

It was not clear whether Trump planned to nominate new members immediately or leave the positions vacant — a move that, months ahead of midterm elections, could prevent the agency from distributing new grants to state or local elections offices and, at the least, complicate its role in overseeing testing and certification of voting systems around the country.

“The Administration from the start has been working across all agencies and local partners to safeguard elections from fraud and abuse, and investing in a strong infrastructure to sustain that mission especially in the midterm elections,” the White House said.

Congress created the four-member commission as part of the Help America Vote Act, a bipartisan law signed by Republican President George W. Bush in 2002. The act requires the commission to include two Democrats and two Republicans, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Hicks and McCormick were appointed by President Barack Obama. Trump appointed Hovland during his first presidency.

According to VoteBeat, Hicks and Hovland were notified of their removal by an email signed by Morgan DeWitt Snow, the deputy director of presidential personnel in the Executive Office of the President.

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Lawyers for man charged with killing Charlie Kirk question reliability of evidence

• July 10, 2026

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and MATTHEW BROWN

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk plan to call a final witness on Friday as they try to raise doubts about the prosecution’s case before it can go to trial.

A Utah judge is deciding whether prosecutors have enough evidence to put Tyler Robinson on trial on a charge of aggravated murder. Kirk, 31, was killed as he spoke to a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

One of Robinson’s attorneys, Michael Burt, tried to inject uncertainty into the case Thursday by challenging the reliability of ballistics tests on a bullet fragment recovered from Kirk’s body. Authorities sought to tie the fragment to the suspected murder weapon, but the results were inconclusive.

“Saying anything but inconclusive was inappropriate,” said Samantha Karner with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.

Burt earlier in the week questioned the reliability of DNA evidence that investigators said linked Robinson to the scene. Experts say the science behind DNA testing is sound.

Robinson has not entered a plea. He turned himself in a day after the fatal shooting of Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump credited with helping galvanize young voters for the Republican in the 2024 election.

The defense said it would call a final witness to testify Friday, the final day of the weeklong preliminary hearing.

However, a decision from state District Judge Tony Graf won’t come until after Sept. 1, when he scheduled oral arguments in the matter.

Prosecutors on Thursday aired portions of a recorded interview with Robinson’s roommate, Lance Twiggs.

The day after Kirk was shot in the neck, Robinson allegedly told Twiggs “he wishes he hadn’t done it,” a recording played in court revealed.

Later that same day — and only about an hour before turning himself in — Robinson posted “it was me at UVU yesterday,” in a chat room on the Discord social media platform, according to investigators and messages shown by prosecutors.

Defense attorneys unsuccessfully fought the public release of the statements from Twiggs and the chat room messages. They argued prosecutors would characterize the material as a confession, undermining Robinson’s right to a fair trial.

Prosecutors contend the shooting endangered others at Kirk’s campus event — an aggravating circumstance that could make the crime punishable by death under Utah law. Robinson also faces possible sentence enhancements based on claims by prosecutors that he targeted Kirk because of his political views.

Twiggs said in the April interview with prosecutors and investigators that Robinson sometimes talked about politics, including Trump. But Twiggs said he never heard Robinson talk about Kirk before the shooting. The defendant also did not talk much about gender issues or LGBTQ rights, Twiggs said.

Brown reported from Billings, Montana.

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Unclaimed airstrikes target Iran after US attacks, raising questions of who launched them

• July 10, 2026

By JON GAMBRELL

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A series of unclaimed airstrikes that hit Iran after the U.S. said it finished its attacks have again raised questions of who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic.

The strikes Thursday, just as Iran prepared to bury the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hit areas across southern Iran. The country’s theocracy hasn’t directly blamed anyone for the strikes, though one lawmaker issued a warning to the United Arab Emirates over allegedly providing support to the United States in its campaign against Iran.

Gulf Arab states, which repeatedly have been targeted by Iran since the war began Feb. 28, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday over the strikes. The attacks come as they and the U.S. insist the Strait of Hormuz must be open and free to ships to transit. Iran insists the strait, through which about a fifth of all oil and natural gas passes, must now be under its sole control and that vessels should begin to pay fees to Tehran — even though the world for decades has considered it an international waterway.

Iran’s grip on the strait during the conflict led to an global energy crisis, though oil prices have sharply dropped since wartime highs of $120 a barrel.

Israel, which took part in the Iran war, also has not claimed any recent attacks on Iran.

Unclaimed strikes came after US ended its attacks

The U.S. military’s Central Command said Thursday around 6:30 a.m. local Iran time that it had concluded a round of strikes that saw some 90 targets hit. Shortly after that, Iranian news outlets and state media reported a series of airstrikes and explosions targeting the country’s Bushehr and Sistan and Baluchestan provinces, the cities of Ahvaz and Chabahar and other areas.

Central Command did not respond to a request for comment over the additional strikes.

Iran responded to the strikes Thursday by launching a wider volley of attacks across the Mideast, targeting Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar. Missile alert sirens sounded in the four countries, sending people to seek shelter. One person was reportedly hurt in Kuwait as air defense systems targeted the incoming fire across the region.

The leader of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, traveled to Kuwait immediately after the Iranian attack for a meeting with the small, oil-rich nation’s ruling emir. Gulf Arab countries also held calls with Qatar’s foreign minister, who has been deeply involved along with Pakistan in mediating talks between Iran and the U.S. over the interim deal now in place to halt the return of open warfare.

During the Iran war, there also were a series of unclaimed airstrikes. Officials later said both Saudi Arabia and the UAE launched airstrikes on Iran, after Tehran struck energy sites in their countries. Having a Gulf country again strike Iran likely could be an effort to deter Tehran from targeting the Gulf states again.

Israel, which under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has engaged in an intense campaign against Iran, has not attacked the Islamic Republic since June. Israel also broadly immediately claims its attacks on Iran.

Israel’s government said Netanyahu spoke with Trump on Thursday night, with Trump updating Netanyahu “on American moves in the Gulf.”

Israel Katz, Israel’s defense minister, also renewed threats that his nation stood ready to confront Iran if needed.

The Israel military “is on alert and ready to renew the campaign, to reestablish aerial superiority, and to carry out a blue-white (Israeli) strike in Iran to remove threats, even for a third time,” Katz told a military ceremony. “If we will have to return, we will return with even greater force.”

Iran keeps up its threats

On Friday, Iranian state media quoted Esmail Kousari, a member of the Iranian parliament’s national security committee and a former commander in the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, as warning the UAE would “pay the price for its cooperation with the United States.” He accused the Emirates of having a “behind-the-scenes” role in the recent U.S. attacks.

Iran repeatedly accused Gulf Arab states of actively supporting the U.S. war effort, something they denied during the war. The U.S. since the 1991 Gulf War has maintained a broad footprint of military bases across the Gulf Arab states, including in Bahrain, which is home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet headquarters.

Meanwhile, Iran insists it must be the sole controller of the Strait of Hormuz. But the U.S. is continuing to urge mariners to travel on a southern route through Oman’s territorial waters to avoid Iran.

The Joint Maritime Information Center, a multinational body overseen by the U.S. Navy, issued a new advisory Friday urging ships to travel that route. A similar message for ships to use that route sparked an Iranian attack on Tuesday that saw three vessels hit.

“Notwithstanding recent unprovoked attacks on merchant vessels, mariners are reminded that the southern route of the (strait) has been expanded and remains available for all traffic,” the maritime center said.

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California will decide the House – and how far left Democrats have gone

• July 10, 2026

Almost three years ago today, Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar predicted that control of the U.S. House would come down to California. Fast forward, Aguilar’s prediction is again relevant, as there are a number of districts where Republicans remain more competitive than many would have assumed.

Further, a handful of key general elections between two Democrats will provide critical insight into the growing influence of the far-left, progressive movement, fresh off high-profile wins in New York City and Colorado. 

When Gov. Gavin Newsom sought to neutralize the advantage Republicans secured from Texas’ redistricting, virtually all competitive House districts in the Golden State were eliminated.

However, in some districts, Republicans have a genuine shot at holding on to their seats, potentially mitigating the original five seats Proposition 50 was designed to secure.

For example, the race to replace Darrell Issa in the 48th features Republican Jim Desmond, who is competitive in a district with a similarly small Democratic advantage. Desmond and another Republican received a combined 48% of the vote in the primary. 

While these races may well determine which party controls the House, a number of all-Democrat general elections figure to be just as interesting for what they say about the larger Democratic Party.

Specifically, the contests in the 7th, 11th, and 14th districts will give clues as to whether California Democrats follow those in New York and Colorado further left, or if moderates find a way to prevail.

To be sure, the far-left has been ascendant of late throughout the country, sparking a conversation about whether they will drag the whole party left and how this new crop of politicians will co-exist with moderates.

At the same time, the far-left’s recent success has raised serious questions about the impact it will have on Democrats’ electoral viability. 

Put another way, progressives may be popular in primaries, but will they hurt the Democratic Party’s “brand” with national voters?

Consider the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi – where state Sen. Scott Wiener will face Supervisor Connie Chan.

Chan, a staunch critic of Israel in her own right, may win solely because she is a Democrat running without specific baggage that Wiener is – he is Jewish.

Wiener made headlines recently when the very liberal state senator was harassed and eventually kicked out of San Francisco’s annual Trans march. A prominent advocate for LGBTQ rights, Wiener, who is Jewish, was accused of “supporting genocide in Gaza” and berated. This comes even though Wiener has bent the knee to the far-left on Israel.

That incident also follows Rep. Dan Goldman in New York City, who lost his primary just days after a local coffee shop posted on Instagram that they will refuse to serve him because of supposed support for Israel.

Moreover, it comes on the heels of Darializa Avila Chevalier and Melat Kiros winning their primaries in New York City and Colorado, respectively. 

Chevalier has long denied Israel’s right to exist while Kiros made headlines for denying that the deadly 2025 firebombing attack on a group of Jews rallying for the release of hostages in Gaza had antisemitic motives.

Taken together, it’s clear that Israel is becoming a litmus test for Democratic primaries, and nobody, not even Jewish candidates who stridently oppose Israel’s government or its actions in Gaza can be considered safe.

In the Bay Area, disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s seat in the 14th district will also shed some light on the direction of the Democratic Party. Aisha Wahab, a state senator supported by the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations is facing Melissa Hernandez, a former local mayor.

For her part, Hernandez is backed by establishment-leaning groups, but she faces an uphill battle.  Wahab – who more than doubled Hernandez’s support in the primaries (38% to 17%) also has roughly 3 times more cash on hand. 

Lastly, the 7th district features an extremely interesting race. Incumbent Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui will, for the first time in her two-decade career, have a formidable challenge from progressive Mai Vang. 

Vang, a city council member, has made news for “boasting about refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance” and “routinely” turning her back on the American flag during official meetings. And yet, in spite of those actions, Vang finished two points ahead of Matsui in the primary, setting up what should be a hotly contested race.

California’s reputation as the bluest of blue states masks the extremely important role it played of late in determining control of the House. Should Republicans be able to neutralize Newsom’s redistricting, that would almost certainly keep the House in GOP hands.

Perhaps even more important, however, is what the all-Democrat races reveal about the state of the Democratic Party. Will moderates show up in sufficient numbers to blunt the far-left’s rise?

Douglas Schoen is a longtime Democratic political consultant.

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Local representatives on birthright citizenship and birth tourism

• July 10, 2026

Earlier this week, we asked 10 Southern California members of Congress for their thoughts on the recent Supreme Court decision that re-affirmed the constitutional right to citizenship in our country for those who are born here.

We thought it would be an interesting choice of a subject for House members to weigh in on. Our part of the nation, after all, is one of the most diverse   —   OK, the most diverse   —  places not only in the United States, but on the whole planet.

Millions of people here have parents who were born in other countries than the U.S. Millions more were themselves born in other countries.

On the final day of its term this summer, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 opinion with a clear message: Birthright citizenship is a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The decision struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, and reaffirmed many generations of legal theory and practice.

In the end, birthright citizenship as a constitutional right survived.

Sometimes, it can be hard for our Republican members of Congress to answer some of our questions, seeing as how they don’t want to get on the wrong side of President Trump, whose endorsement, or lack of it, can play a huge factor in whether they will be re-elected to their seats.

But Southern California is also the home of something that can be controversial even for those who support the Constitution’s longtime enshrinement of citizenship for the American-born: so-called birth tourism. Affluent foreigners who can afford to come here, and stay for awhile, when they are already expecting a child, sometimes do so, and then return to their home countries after giving birth, knowing that their child will, whatever their parents’ citizenship, forever be an American citizen, by right, with all the privileges that may mean.

Is that gaming the system? We also asked the members of Congress about that.

As you can see, only one Republican chose to answer. While two Democrats also did, they notably declined to share their thoughts on birth tourism.

Here are the replies from our three intrepid House members:

George Whitesides, D-Santa Clarita: “The Constitution is clear: if you’re born here, you’re a citizen. But this fight is part of a broader pattern from an administration that continues to attack the very foundations of our democracy. From questioning birthright citizenship to testing the limits of executive power, President Trump continues to threaten Americans’ constitutional rights. I’ll keep fighting to defend each and every one of the people I represent, and Congress must do its job and remain a check on the Executive Branch.”

Rep. Young Kim, R-Anaheim Hills: “I respect the Supreme Court’s decision. As an immigrant, I understand the call of America’s freedom and opportunity in a unique way. Birth tourism is an abuse of our immigration system. We must preserve the very American Dream that draws people to our nation in the first place, not reward those who exploit our laws and game the system.”

Rep. Derek Tran, D-Garden Grove: “I was born in the United States the year my refugee parents were admitted to this great country. They fled oppression and violence in communist Vietnam. It was because America welcomed my refugee parents that I was able to join the Army, start my own business, and now represent California in Congress. The Supreme Court’s decision affirms a fundamental constitutional principle that has defined the American dream for generations: every child born in the United States is a citizen of the United States. This is a pillar of our democracy enshrined in the Constitution. At the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, we must remain vigilant in defense of our Constitution and protect the fundamental rights that keep the American dream alive.”

What do you think?

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