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US President Donald Trump (Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Democratic states and US cities are challenging in court President Donald Trump’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants. This was reported by CNN on Tuesday, January 21.
The lawsuits allege that the executive order violates the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
CNN writes that 18 states filed a lawsuit in federal court in Massachusetts. That means any appeal of that court’s ruling would go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, where all the judges are Democratic appointees. The article also says that the Supreme Court has previously confirmed citizenship by birthright.
“The President has the right to push whatever political agenda he sees fit… When it comes to birthright citizenship—something that has been part of the fabric of this nation for centuries, that has been in the Constitution for 157 years since the Civil War, that has been twice confirmed by the Supreme court, — the president cannot rewrite the Constitution and strike out the rule of law with one stroke of the pen,” said Democratic New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, who is one from the initiators of the lawsuit.
CBS News writes that the following states have joined the lawsuit: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode- Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.
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Donald Trump on his first day in office, January 20, instructed US government agencies to no longer issue citizenship documents to children born in the United States to parents who do not have legal status.
The order, which applies to children born after 30 days of the action, applies in cases where the parents are in the U.S. illegally, as well as in situations where the mother is in the U.S. temporarily, such as on a visa, and the father is a noncitizen.
The sentence is based on the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,” contained in the 14th Amendment. Some advocates of tough immigration policies argue that the children of undocumented immigrants are not under US “jurisdiction” and should not be considered citizens under the Constitution.
The 14th amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, is in force in the USA. It guarantees citizenship to all those born on the territory of the United States.