Breaking: Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship

A federal judge in Seattle Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour issued a temporary restraining order to block the executive action at the request of four Democratic states, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and Illinois, which argued that Trump’s order would deny rights to 150,000 children born each year.

“Absent a temporary restraining order, children born in the Plaintiff States will soon be rendered undocumented, subject to removal or detention, and many stateless,” the states argued in their lawsuit.

The ruling is Trump’s first setback in pursing his agenda of mass deportations and strict enforcement of immigration law at the southern border.

“I can’t remember another case where the case presented is as clear as it is here. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, said at a hearing Thursday.

Trump signed the executive order on day one as part of a larger push to get his immigration agenda moving immediately. The order limits birthright citizenship to children with at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Children born to mothers in the U.S. legally but temporarily will also be excluded from birthright citizenship under Trump’s directive.

“But the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.  The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,'” the order asserts.

Birthright citizenship is guaranteed under the 14th Amendment and initially allowed freed slaves to become full American citizens after the Civil War. Trump’s long-promised action was expected to draw significant legal challenges upon signage, and 22 Democratic states have already contested it.

A group of 18 blue states and two cities, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. have filed a separate lawsuit against Trump’s order in Massachusetts federal court. The states attorneys general argued that birthright citizenship is automatic and the president lacks the authority to unilaterally re-interpret it.

Democratic-run states and activist groups are expected to wage extensive legal fights against the Trump administration’s executive decisions, mirroring their approach to his first term. Thus far, the Trump administration has begun mass deportations of illegal alien criminals and bolstered border security with military personnel and resources.

Trump declared the southern border a national emergency on day one and designated Mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations, opening up further resources the White House can use to tackle illegal immigration. Trump made mass deportations and shutting down the southern border major campaign promises on his way to a decisive electoral victory this past November.

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