California joins lawsuit against Trump's birthright citizenship executive order

SAN FRANCISCO (KFSN) -- President Trump signed an enforcement bid connected his archetypal nighttime successful bureau to revoke the close connected February 19th.

"In 1 fell swoop, helium stripped the law close to citizenship who volition beryllium calved connected US soil, careless of their parent's migration status," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said successful a property league Tuesday.

Bonta joined much than a twelve states successful suing the president implicit the order, asking the tribunal to assistance them a preliminary injunction to artifact the enactment from taking effect portion the lawsuit plays out.

"The president has overstepped his authorization by a mile, and we volition clasp him accountable," Bonta stated.

If it is not granted, children calved successful the U.S. to non-citizens volition not get societal information numbers, passports, oregon different national resources.

"Children would beryllium forced to unrecorded nether the menace of deportation," Bonta said. "The fear, anxiety, and trauma of that unsocial is enormously detrimental to their intelligence and affectional well-being."

Bonta claims the bid violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which says, "All persons calved oregon naturalized successful the United States, and taxable to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States..."

In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that the close extended to children calved to immigrants successful U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark.

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"The tribunal has for a precise agelong clip astatine aggregate levels, not conscionable the Supreme Court, but different parts of the Federal judiciary, interpreted the instrumentality to mean that birthright citizenship is, you know, benignant of guaranteed by the Constitution successful the mode that it's presently interpreted," UC Merced governmental subject prof Nate Monroe said.

However, the Trump medication argues the wording of the amendment and anterior tribunal rulings connection nary extortion erstwhile the child's parents are successful the state illegally.

"This is portion of a broader entreaty to a constituency that feels, rightly oregon wrongly, depending connected your benignant of governmental perspective, but feels frustrated astir the benignant of thought that determination are benignant of resources going to individuals that are non-citizens," Monroe explained.

"We person precise bully grounds. People person wanted to bash this for decades," Trump said.

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