Trump's move to curb birthright citizenship faces legal challenge
The American Civil Liberties Union and other immigration advocacy groups filed the challenge to Trump's new executive action before a New Hampshire federal judge Bloomberg
The American Civil Liberties Union and other immigration advocacy groups filed the challenge to Trump's new executive action before a New Hampshire federal judge Bloomberg President Donald Trump's latest move to restrict automatic citizenship is facing a legal challenge, months after the Supreme Court knocked down his earlier attempt at upending longstanding guarantees for children born in the US to non-citizens.Lawyers who defeated Trump's original curbs on birthright citizenship asked a judge on Tuesday to declare that one of two executive orders the president signed on Aug 6 violates an existing injunction.
That court order currently bars the administration from denying the status to babies whose mothers have temporary visas or who are undocumented migrants in the US illegally.The American Civil Liberties Union and other immigration advocacy groups filed the challenge to Trump's new executive action before a New Hampshire federal judge, who had approved that case as a class action.
"If the president issues 100 orders seeking to create new exceptions to the sacred guarantee of the Citizenship Clause, all 100 will be equally illegal," the lawyers wrote. "The court should make clear that defendants may not take away class members' birthright under the auspices of these or any other executive actions.
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