A federal judge Wednesday temporarily blocked the administration from enforcing President Donald Trump’s latest restrictions on birthright citizenship against a nationwide class of children, finding that the policy likely violates the 14th Amendment.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland said the Supreme Court had already determined that children born in the United States are citizens at birth, even if their parents are unlawfully or temporarily in the country.
“The Supreme Court has spoken: Children in the certified class are ‘citizens at birth,’” Boardman wrote in her 35-page opinion.
The ruling is the latest setback for Trump’s efforts to prune away the constitutional guarantee of citizenship to those born in the United States.
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The president issued an Aug. 6 executive order aimed at denying citizenship to some U.S.-born children whose parents are deemed “alien enemies,” who work for foreign governments or are part of what the administration calls “birth tourism.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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