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SAN FRANCISCO -- The ineligible combat implicit immoderate of President Trump's enforcement orders is already opening arsenic California joins 17 different states suing him for his effort to extremity birthright citizenship.
San Francisco and Washington, D.C. are besides 2 cities that person joined the lawsuit.
President Trump's bid to chopped disconnected birthright citizenship is simply a "flagrantly unlawful effort to portion hundreds of thousands of American-born children of their citizenship based connected their parentage," the suit states.
The suit accused Trump of seeking to destruct a "well-established and longstanding Constitutional principle" by enforcement fiat.
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Santa Clara County leaders reaffirmed their committedness to families amid Trump's caller migration policies.
Birthright citizenship means anyone calved successful the US is automatically a citizen, careless of their parents' migration status. It's ensured the 14th amendment, which was raitified much than 150 years ago.
Trump's bid directed national agencies -- starting adjacent period -- to halt issuing citizenship documents to U.S.-born children of undocumented mothers oregon mothers successful the state connected impermanent visas, if the begetter is not a U.S. national oregon imperishable resident.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta held a property league successful San Francisco Tuesday to propulsion backmost against the enforcement order, saying, "I person 1 connection for President Trump: I'll spot you successful court."
"The president chose to commencement his 2nd word by knocking down 1 of our country's foundational, long-standing rights and disregarding our nation's governing document, a terrifying code to acceptable for the remainder of his term," Bonta said successful the property conference.
According to the lawsuit, astir 150,000 children calved each twelvemonth to 2 parents who were noncitizens and lacked ineligible presumption could suffer entree to basal wellness care, foster care, and aboriginal interventions for infants, toddlers, and students with disabilities.
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"They volition each beryllium deportable, and galore volition beryllium stateless," the suit said.
The states warned the enforcement bid would besides origin them to suffer national backing for programs that render services to children careless of their migration status.
While Trump's bid purports to unilaterally extremity birthright citizenship, lone the U.S. Supreme Court tin find however the 14th Amendment applies.
The states are seeking to invalidate the enforcement bid and halt immoderate actions taken to instrumentality it. Their suit requests a preliminary injunction to instantly forestall the bid from taking effect.
On Tuesday, nonprofit groups successful Massachusetts and New Hampshire besides filed national lawsuits challenging Trump's birthright citizenship enforcement order.
The U.S. Supreme Court besides upheld the close successful an 1898 lawsuit involving a San Francisco antheral who was the kid of migrant parents.
ABC7 News contributed to this story.
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