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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Alice Herman and agencies

Second judge orders temporary halt to Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship

A woman walking with a young girl
An undocumented woman in Texas, walks with her daughter who was born in the US but was denied a birth certificate, in 2015. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second temporary pause on Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the US to someone in the country illegally.

US district judge Deborah Boardman said no court in the country had endorsed the Trump administration’s interpretation of the 14th amendment.

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