Judge Pauses Birthright Rule

President Trump suffered his first defeat as he tries to change the country’s immigration laws and undo decades of precedent on Thursday when a federal judge temporarily stopped his executive order to stop automatic citizenship for kids born in the United States. Three days after Mr. Trump issued his executive order, a Federal District Court judge named John C. Coughenour signed a restraining order that prevents Mr. Trump’s executive order for 14 days, renewable when it expires, siding with the four states that filed the lawsuit: Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon. “This order is obviously unconstitutional,” he declared. The president said that children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants after February 19 would no longer be considered citizens in one of several orders he signed in the first few hours of his office to restrict immigration, both legal and illegal. If the father is a noncitizen, the order would also apply to children born to mothers who are legally in the nation but only temporarily, such as tourists, college students, or temporary employees.

Source: The New York TImes