A US District Judge in Seattle has issued a temporary restraining order against President Trump's executive order that sought to revoke automatic citizenship for children born to parents who are in the country illegally or on temporary visas. The judge deemed the order 'blatantly unconstitutional' and argued that it contradicted the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court precedent.
A US District Judge in Seattle has temporarily halted President Donald Trump 's executive order that aimed to revoke automatic citizenship for children born to parents who are in the country illegally or on temporary visas. Judge John C Coughenour, in a ruling that applies nationwide, issued a 14-day restraining order against the implementation of the new rules, describing the order as 'blatantly unconstitutional'.
The judge stated that he had never encountered a case where the challenged action was so clearly unconstitutional in his four decades on the bench. \Trump signed the executive order on his first day back in office, Monday, arguing that it corrects a long-standing legal ambiguity. However, the move was immediately challenged by several states, including Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon, who argued that the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court precedent guarantee citizenship to anyone born on American soil. \During the court hearing, Washington Assistant Attorney General Lane Polozola refuted the government's claim that the children of undocumented parents are not 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States. He questioned how these children could not be subject to the decisions of immigration courts or be expected to follow the law while residing in the country. Polozola also emphasized the urgency of the restraining order, highlighting the potential for states to incur millions of dollars in expenses to revamp healthcare and benefits systems to account for changes in citizenship status. He argued that the executive order would impact hundreds of thousands of US citizens nationwide who would lose their citizenship under the new rule. \The case is one of five lawsuits filed by 22 states and several immigrant rights groups across the country. These lawsuits include personal testimonies from attorneys general who are US citizens by birthright, as well as accounts from pregnant women fearing their children would not be granted US citizenship. Trump's order could affect hundreds of thousands of people born in the country. In 2022, there were approximately 255,000 births of citizen children to mothers living in the country illegally and about 153,000 births to two such parents, according to the four-state lawsuit filed in Seattle. The US is one of approximately 30 countries that apply birthright citizenship – the principle of jus soli or 'right of the soil'. The lawsuits contend that the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees citizenship for individuals born and naturalized in the US, and this interpretation has been upheld by states for a century. Ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, the amendment states: 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.' \Trump's order contradicts this by stating that the children of noncitizens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, instructing federal agencies to disregard citizenship claims for children who lack at least one citizen parent. The US Department of Justice has vowed to 'vigorously defend' the president's executive order, asserting that it 'correctly interprets the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution'. They anticipate presenting a full merits argument to the court and the American public, emphasizing the need to uphold the nation's laws
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