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A federal judge has invalidated Donald Trump's executive order denying U.S. citizenship to children born in the country to illegal immigrants.
John Coughenour, the US District Judge presiding over the case in Washington state, on Thursday called the policy “grossly unconstitutional,” issuing a temporary restraining order halting the president’s action, according to media reports.
The decision stems from a lawsuit filed Tuesday by four Democratic attorneys general led by Washington state — one of several legal challenges quickly filed against the order. Trump It was signed on Monday, just hours after he was sworn in as President of the United States.
Other Democratic attorneys general as well as civil rights groups this week filed separate lawsuits to invalidate the birthright ban, all alleging similar violations of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that all “persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States.” “United.”
The US President's office said: “If this unconstitutional and un-American system is allowed to continue, it will result in thousands of newborns and children in Washington losing their ability to fully and fairly participate in American society as citizens, despite the Constitution's guarantee of their citizenship.” Attorney General of Washington on Tuesday, which was joined in the suit by the states of Oregon, Arizona and Illinois.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is a developing story
