(The Guardian) ACLU files legal challenge to Trump's order to try to end birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump’s executive order trying to end the right to citizenship for some children born in the US is already subject to legal challenges.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed one suit, and another has been filed in Massachusetts, asking the court to declare the order unconstitutional and issue an injunction preventing enforcement.
ABC News’ Peter Charalambous reports the lawsuit is being brought by “an undocumented expectant mother who is due in March and two nonprofit groups.” He reports the lawsuit claims: This unprecedented attempt to strip citizenship from millions of Americans with the stroke of a pen is flagrantly illegal. The president does not have the power to decide who becomes a citizen at birth.
Those victimized in this way by the executive order would be shorn of their national identity, stigmatized in the eyes of those who should be their fellow citizens, and forced to live with the shame, uncertainty, and fear that comes with potential banishment from their native country. Many would be rendered immediately stateless.
President Donald Trump’s executive order trying to end the right to citizenship for some children born in the US is already subject to legal challenges.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed one suit, and another has been filed in Massachusetts, asking the court to declare the order unconstitutional and issue an injunction preventing enforcement.
ABC News’ Peter Charalambous reports the lawsuit is being brought by “an undocumented expectant mother who is due in March and two nonprofit groups.” He reports the lawsuit claims: This unprecedented attempt to strip citizenship from millions of Americans with the stroke of a pen is flagrantly illegal. The president does not have the power to decide who becomes a citizen at birth.
Those victimized in this way by the executive order would be shorn of their national identity, stigmatized in the eyes of those who should be their fellow citizens, and forced to live with the shame, uncertainty, and fear that comes with potential banishment from their native country. Many would be rendered immediately stateless.
