A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump맥스카지노�s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents맥스카지노� immigration status.U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour ruled in the case brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, which argue the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court case law have cemented birthright citizenship.The case is one of five lawsuits being brought by 22 states and a number of immigrants rights groups across the country. The suits include personal testimonies from attorneys general who are U.S. citizens by birthright, and names pregnant women who are afraid their children won맥스카지노�t become U.S. citizens.Signed by Trump on Inauguration Day, the order is slated to take effect on Feb. 19. It could impact hundreds of thousands of people born in the country, according to one of the lawsuits. In 2022, there were about 255,000 births of citizen children to mothers living in the country illegally and about 153,000 births to two such parents, according to the four-state suit filed in Seattle.The U.S. is among about 30 countries where birthright citizenship 맥스카지노� the principle of jus soli or 맥스카지노�right of the soil맥스카지노� 맥스카지노� is applied. Most are in the Americas, and Canada and Mexico are among them.The lawsuits argue that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship for people born and naturalized in the U.S., and states have been interpreting the amendment that way for a century.Ratified in 1868 in the aftermath of the Civil War, the amendment says: 맥스카지노�All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.맥스카지노�Trump맥스카지노�s order asserts that the children of noncitizens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and orders federal agencies to not recognize citizenship for children who don맥스카지노�t have at least one parent who is a citizen.A key case involving birthright citizenship unfolded in 1898. The Supreme Court held that Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, was a U.S. citizen because he was born in the country. After a trip abroad, he faced being denied reentry by the federal government on the grounds that he wasn맥스카지노�t a citizen under the Chinese Exclusion Act.But some advocates of immigration restrictions have argued that case clearly applied to children born to parents who were both legal immigrants. They say it맥스카지노�s less clear whether it applies to children born to parents living in the country illegally.Trump맥스카지노�s executive order prompted attorneys general to share their personal connections to birthright citizenship. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, for instance, a U.S. citizen by birthright and the nation맥스카지노�s first Chinese American elected attorney general, said the lawsuit was personal for him.맥스카지노�There is no legitimate legal debate on this question. But the fact that Trump is dead wrong will not prevent him from inflicting serious harm right now on American families like my own,맥스카지노� Tong said this week.One of the lawsuits aimed at blocking the executive order includes the case of a pregnant woman, identified as 맥스카지노�Carmen,맥스카지노� who is not a citizen but has lived in the United States for more than 15 years and has a pending visa application that could lead to permanent residency status.맥스카지노�Stripping children of the 맥스카지노�priceless treasure맥스카지노� of citizenship is a grave injury,맥스카지노� the suit says. 맥스카지노�It denies them the full membership in U.S. society to which they are entitled.맥스카지노�