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BOSTON (Reuters) – Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed dozens of lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump to restore citizenship on Tuesday in the first attempt by his opponents. of preventing his plan in court.
After his inauguration on Monday, Trump, a Republican, ordered US agencies to deny citizenship to children born in the US if their mother or father is not a US citizen or citizen. default rule.
Twenty-two Democratic-led states along with the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco filed two lawsuits in federal courts in Boston and Seattle asserting that Trump violated the US Constitution. .
Two similar lawsuits were filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, immigrant groups and an expectant mother in the hours after Trump signed the executive order, setting off the first-ever civil war. the council of his administration.
The cases are at the center of Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. If allowed to stand, Trump’s order would for the first time deny more than 150,000 children born each year in the United States the right to citizenship, said the office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Andrea Joy Campbell.
“President Trump does not have the power to take away constitutional rights,” he said in a statement.
Losing citizenship could prevent those people from getting government programs like Medicaid health insurance and, in old age, from working legally or voting, states say.
“Today’s immediate decision sends a clear message to the Trump administration that we will stand up for our citizens and their basic constitutional rights,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said. in the sentence.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
More lawsuits from states led by Democrats and advocacy groups challenging other aspects of Trump’s plan are expected, with lawsuits already filed challenging the Elon Musk-led Department of Defense’s executive order. Trump signed a bill that weakens job security for public employees.
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Three of the four were filed in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Any rulings from judges in those New England states will be reviewed by the United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, the only federal appeals court whose serving judges are all elected. in the Democratic.
The four states filed a separate lawsuit in the Washington district, which has jurisdiction over the 9th Circuit of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. US District Judge John Coughenour of Seattle has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on whether to issue a temporary restraining order preventing the implementation of Trump’s executive order.
A fifth lawsuit was filed in federal court in Maryland by a group of pregnant women and immigrant rights groups including CASA.
Various lawsuits argue that Trump’s order violated the right enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which provides that anyone born in the United States is considered a citizen.
The complaints cite the United States Supreme Court’s 1898 ruling against Wong Kim Ark, ruling that children born in the United States to noncitizen parents have the right to become United States citizens.
The plaintiffs challenging the order include a Massachusetts woman identified only as “O. Doe” who is in the state on temporary protected status and is due to give birth in March.
Temporary protected status is available to people whose countries have experienced natural disasters, armed conflicts or other extraordinary events and currently covers more than 1 million people from 17.
Several other lawsuits challenging aspects of some of Trump’s earlier actions are pending.
The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents federal government workers in 37 agencies and departments, late Monday filed a lawsuit challenging an executive order Trump signed that makes it easier to fire and replace federal workers. political loyalists in their area.
