A lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship warns that the measure could leave some U.S.-born children of asylum-seekers stateless. The order, signed Monday and titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, seeks to limit citizenship to those born to at least one U.S. citizen or permanent resident. It also denies automatic citizenship to children born to parents in the U.S. legally but on temporary status.
On Thursday, a federal district court in Seattle temporarily blocked the order from taking effect for 14 days, with the case ongoing, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional." Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon were the four states requesting an emergency order to halt Trump's executive order.
