So far, President Donald Trump’s executive order severely restricting birthright citizenship in the U.S. is getting battered in the courts, with four federal judges already blocking its implementation until a slew of legal challenges can be sorted out. Yet even this twilight period before the order’s legality is decided is having a chilling effect on immigrant communities in California and elsewhere.
Signed by Trump on the first day of his second term in office, the order would deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to mothers who are in the country on temporary visas or are undocumented, and whose fathers are neither citizens nor lawful residents.
