President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to unilaterally revoke the constitutional right to citizenship for immigrants' offspring would result in food and health care being taken away from "countless children," according to state and local government officials who are backing a lawsuit in defense of the 14th Amendment.
In the case, New Jersey v. Donald Trump, filed last month in a Massachusetts federal court, officials at all levels across 24 states signed on to an amicus brief warning about the burden that Trump’s effort to unilaterally eliminate birthright citizenship would impose on their governments. Experts told Salon that burden is part of the reason why Trump's order is likely to be put on hold by federal courts.
