A recent Supreme Court decision puts an expectant immigrant mother in South Carolina and her baby at risk in a way that's not the same for a woman across the border in North Carolina.

President Donald Trump's administration will not deport children deemed ineligible for U.S. citizenship until his executive order curtailing birthright citizenship takes effect on July 27, a government lawyer said on Monday after being pressed by two federal judges.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday to curtail federal judges’ authority to issue nationwide injunctions against President Donald Trump’s executive order ending automatic birthright citizenship, though the policy’s future remains unclear as litigation continues in lower courts.

The ruling left unsettled the question of whether children born to immigrants without full legal status in the United States are entitled to automatic citizenship. So what happens now?

Effective immediately, the Trump administration can begin planning for how it would implement an end to birthright citizenship.

In a June 27 ruling, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially halt nationwide injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for certain people born in the U.