Eliminating the right to citizenship by birth has generated that prosecutors from 18 US states and the city of San Francisco are suing the incoming Donald Trump administration.
After this Tuesday morning, prosecutors from 18 states in the United States and the city of San Francisco reported that they have sued the newly incoming San Francisco Administration Donald Trump Four states have joined in seeking to eliminate birthright citizenship, bringing the number of governments seeking to halt the executive order to 22.
The 22 states are joined by the city of San Francisco, the District of Columbia, and several civil rights and legal organizations in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
These lawsuits seek to challenge the unconstitutional executive order that will affect tens of thousands of babies born each year in American universities.
The lawsuit, led by California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, argues that President Trump's unprecedented executive order violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Section 1401 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and should be immediately blocked from taking effect while litigation is ongoing.
The executive order signed by Trump is entitled "Protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship," stating that the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted as a universal extension of citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
"The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded people born in the United States from birthright citizenship, but they are not subject to its jurisdiction," he said.
Among the categories of people born in the United States and not subject to its jurisdiction, the executive order details, are: "when the mother of that person was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or legal permanent resident at the time of that person's birth."
In turn, it says: when the presence of that person's mother in the United States at the time of that person's birth was legal but temporary (such as, among others, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting with a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of that person's birth.
It also states that "it is the policy of the United States that no