Judge Barra Trump attack on citizenship by birth

Judicial decision suspends of Trump’s order that denied citizenship to children of immigrants, highlighting violations of the fourteenth amendment and protection of human rights

A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s executive order that denied American citizenship to children born in the country of unauthorized immigrant parents, representing a blow to an immigration policy that is one of the main priorities of his second presidential term.

Residents of the states who filed a lawsuit, led by Washington, were “irreparably impaired by the deprivation of their constitutional right to citizenship” and “undergoing the risk of deportation and family separation; For deprivation of access to federal funds for medical care… and the impact on their education, employment and health, ”wrote John Coughenour, US district judge in the state of Washington, in the injunction issued on Thursday.

According to the Financial Times, the decision is temporary, but will remain in force until a final decision in the courts.

“These damages are immediate, continuous and significant, and cannot be remedied in the normal course of a dispute,” added the judge.

Speaking during an audience on Thursday, Coughenour called the “flagrantly unconstitutional policy,” according to press reports.

Trump, speaking to reporters at the Oval Hall on Thursday afternoon, said: “Obviously, let’s go. They took the case to a certain judge in Seattle… There is no surprises with this judge. ”

The judge’s decision echoed Trump’s first onslaught in his first presidential term, when he issued an executive order a few days after taking office, reducing the number of refugees admitted to the US and suspending the entry of travelers from various countries in majority Muslim. This order was also quickly suspended by the courts, although a modified version was later maintained.

The order on citizenship by birth was one of several political measures designed to impose rigorous restrictions on immigration. Trump’s order would also extend to children of mothers who give birth to the US during a temporary stay, as in work, study or tourism.

The judge’s ruling arises from a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by four prosecutors of Democratic States-one of several legal challenges that were quickly presented against the order Trump signed on Monday, a few hours after being sworn in as president .

Coughenour’s decision marks the first legal setback for Trump’s government just three days after his return to the White House. The president’s executive orders – many of them focused on immigration – began legal battles that promise to be fierce and prolonged.

Other prosecutors of Democratic States, as well as civil rights groups, have filed separated lawsuits this week to invalidate the ban on citizenship by birth, all claiming similar violations of the fourteenth amendment, which states that all “people born or naturalized in USA… They are citizens of the United States. ”

Washington’s Attorney General’s office said: “If maintained, the unconstitutional and anti-American order would make thousands of newborns and children in Washington lose their ability to participate full and precisely in American society as citizens, despite the guarantee constitutional of its citizenship. ”

Oregon, Arizona and Illinois joined the lawsuit.

Trump’s order argued that the fourteenth amendment does not “extend citizenship universally to all born” in the US.

The Justice Department said on Thursday that “it will vigorously defend President Trump’s executive order, which correctly interprets the fourteenth amendment of the US Constitution.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Earlier this week, he said that lawsuits were part of the “left resistance” and that the administration would face them in the courts.

The Justice Department, in a document presented on Wednesday, said the order was “an integral part of President Trump’s recent actions, based on his significant authority in the field of immigration, to address the failed immigration system of this country and The ongoing crisis on the southern border. ”