More than a dozen states challenged President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship Tuesday, asking a federal judge to block a campaign pledge of the incoming administration.
The order from Trump, one of dozens that Trump signed on his first day in office, argued a provision in the 14th Amendment that requires people to be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States allows him to define the children of undocumented immigrants as noncitizens.
Trump, who campaigned on ending birthright citizenship, ordered the government to deny citizenship to anyone born in the United States to undocumented or temporary resident parents as of Feb. 9.
