LAWSUITS BEGIN: The ACLU and 22 states sue in attempt to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order

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As expected, the lawsuits have already started after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in the Oval Office about birthright citizenship.

Trump’s order clarifies language in the 14th Amendment and states that the federal government “will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the United States.”

It has long been argued by conservatives that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted, and that the founding fathers never intended that children born to people illegally present in the United States would automatically become U.S. citizens.

Trump’s order also states that “this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order.”

By issuing an executive order, Trump has now forced the issue to go through the legal process in hopes of getting the issue addressed.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was the first one out of the gate, filing a lawsuit Monday night to challenge Trump’s executive order. In a press release, the ACLU fumed over Trump’s executive order and announced their lawsuit:

The American Civil Liberties Union and immigrants rights advocates sued the Trump administration on its first day in office after President Trump signed an executive order that seeks to strip certain babies born in the U.S. of the United States citizenship that the Constitution guarantees to them.

The lawsuit charges the Trump administration with violating the 14th Amendment and federal law. It was filed on behalf of organizations with members whose children will be denied citizenship under the order, including New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and Make the Road New York.

At the ACLU, we know that denying citizenship to U.S.-born children is not only unconstitutional — it’s also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values. Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is. This order seeks to repeat one of the gravest errors in American history, by creating a permanent subclass of people born in the U.S. who are denied full rights as Americans.

Next, the New York Times has reported: Twenty-two States Sue to Stop Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order. The Times writes:

Attorneys general from 22 states sued President Trump in two federal district courts on Tuesday to block an executive order that refuses to recognize the U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants as citizens, the opening salvo in what promises to be a long legal battle over the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Eighteen states and two cities, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., challenged the order in Federal District Court in Massachusetts, arguing that birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment is “automatic” and that neither the president nor Congress has the constitutional authority to revise it. Four other states filed a second lawsuit in the Western District of Washington.

The plaintiffs in the suit filed in Massachusetts included New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Michigan, Colorado, Delaware, Nevada, Hawaii, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, Vermont, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Additional suits were filed by a group led by the American Civil Liberties Union in New Hampshire, and another by Lawyers for Civil Rights.

The other four states who filed the separate lawsuit are Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a far-left liberal, declared Tuesday morning, “We’re suing President Trump over his unconstitutional, un-American executive order ending birthright citizenship. The President has overstepped his authority by a mile with this order, and we will hold him accountable.”

“The impact of President Trump’s unconstitutional birthright citizenship executive order would be truly devastating. We will not allow our president to willfully violate the rights of U.S. citizens and get away with it,” Bonta fumed.

Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown declared, “The president’s executive order claiming to end birthright citizenship in the United States is plainly illegal. Washington State will not abide such harmful and unjust action. That’s why today we’re leading a lawsuit with Oregon, Arizona and Illinois to stop it.”

Trump signed the executive order in the Oval Office Monday evening:

In October 2018, President Trump had re-posted an old video when the late Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) also condemned the United States for giving U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens.

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