{"id":19693,"date":"2025-01-24T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19693"},"modified":"2025-01-24T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:56:19","slug":"judge-gives-donald-trump-blunt-two-word-response-as-birthright-citizenship-order-is-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19693","title":{"rendered":"Judge gives Donald Trump blunt two-word response as birthright citizenship order is blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just hours after being sworn in as 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump announced his plans to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

The federal court blocked the controversial new executive order earlier today (24 January), with a District Court Judge in Seattle issuing a brutal two-word response to\u00a0Trump’s<\/a>\u00a0immigration plans.<\/p>\n

Following his official inauguration on Monday (20 January), Trump has wasted no time in both rescinding 78 orders and actions signed by his Democrat predecessor\u00a0Joe Biden<\/a>, and introducing several policies of his own.<\/p>\n

Among the most controversial pieces of legislation<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0Republican leader<\/a>\u00a0has already signed is one order ruling that there are ‘only two genders’, and another revoking the 1965 Equal Employment Opportunity Act.<\/p>\n

Trump, 78, also made his plans for immigration clear during his inauguration address, promising that ‘all illegal entry will be halted’ and that millions of ‘criminal aliens’ will be deported.<\/p>\n

Since then, he also ruled that any child born in the US who doesn’t have\u00a0at least one parent who’s a legal permanent resident<\/a>\u00a0are no longer automatically extended US citizenship.<\/p>\n

The current legal principle in place grants citizenship to anyone born in the States, regardless of their parents’ citizenship – meaning everyone born on US soil immediately becomes a\u00a0US citizen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s order has been blocked (Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

In a new update, however, an injunction has blocked the executive order.<\/p>\n

Outlining the dangers of Trump’s plans, the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University told press: “Ending birthright citizenship for US babies with two unauthorized immigrant parents would increase the existing unauthorized population by 4.7 million people by 2050.”<\/p>\n

A District Court Judge in Seattle also described the potential alteration to birthright citizenship as ‘blatantly unconstitutional’, preventing it from going into full force without facing immediate legal challenges.<\/p>\n

Right now, the citizenship is protected by the 14th Amendment, with the decree reading: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”<\/p>\n

A department spokesperson has announced they look forward to ‘presenting a full merits argument to the Court and to the American people’.<\/p>\n

In court on Wednesday (22 January), Justice Department lawyer Brett Shumate argued for the implementation of Trump’s policy, before Judge John Coughenour cut in, demanding: “Is this order constitutional?”<\/p>\n

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A judge branded the policy ‘blatantly unconstitutional’ (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Before the lawyer could respond, Coughenour then argued again: “This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”<\/p>\n

He went on to say: “We look back in history and say ‘Where were the judges, where were the lawyers?'”.<\/p>\n

“Frankly I have difficulty finding that a member of the bar can state confidently that this is a constitutional order.”<\/p>\n

Trump’s administration has since declared they’ll ‘obviously’ ‘vigorously defend’ the latest ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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