A federal judge in New Hampshire issued an order on Monday to stop President Trump’s executive order on Birthday Right Citizenship, the third federal judge to do so. The executive order instructed the government to be born to any child who was born on the US soil as a citizen for non -documentary immigrants.
Joseph Ann Lapplot, a US district court judge in New Hampshire, said he would immediately issue a stay order, and he would follow him on Tuesday, which would have a specific order explaining his reasoning.
The executive order has already been blocked by a federal judge in Maryland indefinitely, which issued a nationwide order last week, and through a similar action by another federal judge in Seattle.
The Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration – both legal and illegal – has taken at least 10 legal proceedings, seven of them challenging their executive order about the birthright citizenship.
The federal case filed in the New Hampshire case was brought to three state branches of the US Civil Liberties Union, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Mine. Two other organizations, Asian Law Cox and the State Democracy Defense Fund, helped file a lawsuit On behalf of several groups It helps immigrants, including the New Hampshire Indonesian community.
The plaintiff’s lawyer, Codi Wovsi, argued in court on Monday that Mr Trump’s order violated the 14th amendment, which guarantees citizenship to all those born on US soil, and then Has violated the violation of separation. Clause of powers.
Mr Woofasi said, “He says that the president needs the rules of our citizenship, the flexibility of re -writing the DNA of this country, and this is not just the constitution under which we live.”
Drew Ansin, represented the government, argued that non -documentary immigrants have a divided allegiance, and have relationships with “foreign power”, which should be considered to decide their citizenship.
The Executive Order announced that children born to non -documentary immigrants will not be considered citizens after February 19 in the United States. Nor was it announced, whether children born to non -Citizen’s parents who were legally but temporarily in the United States, such as tourists or short -term visas like seasonal workers.
