Washington – A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday temporarily blocked the executive order of President Trump Seeking to end the citizenship of birth rights to enter into force throughout the country, becoming the second in the rule against the president in the middle of a progress of legal challenges to its directive.
The United States District Judge, Deborah Boardman, appointed by former President Joe Biden, agreed to grant a preliminary judicial order Sewing by groups of immigrants-rights After conducting a hearing on the application. The organizations, led by the house and the asylum seeker defense project, presented a lawsuit Arguing Mr. Trump’s executive order go to the citizenship of birth law violates the Constitution and the Federal Law.
“This is a victory for our families, for our country and for the Constitution of the United States. This is the level of struggle that will be required for the next four years of the Trump administration”, George Escobar, head of programs and programs the House services, one of the groups that challenged the order, said. “Pregnant women who took this case against President Trump, and so many immigrants throughout the country, can breathe more easily knowing that their precious children are citizens and offer the complete rights that that entails.”
The lawsuit filed in Maryland is one of the eight that were filed in the courts of Costa at coast shortly after Trump signed the order on his first day in office. Entitled “Protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship”, the directive denies the US citizenship of children born to mothers who are in the country illegally or temporarily in visas, and whose parents are not citizens or legal residents.
Immigrant rights groups are demanding with five women who are pregnant and live in the US The presentation.
“Every day, babies are born in the United States whose constitutionally guaranteed citizenship will be called in doubt under the executive order,” they wrote in their demand.
Swapna Reddy, Executive Director of the Defense Project of asylum applicants, said that the Court’s decision was correct and warned that Mr. Trump’s executive order “has created chaos for so many families, including ASAP members, which They are afraid that they cannot live a life free of fear in the only country they will have known. “
Boardman is not the first judge to block the Birth Law Order of Mr. Trump. Last month, the American district judge John Couchnour stopped its application In a case presented by four states led by Democrats, Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon.
Cughenour issued a 14 -day temporary restriction order to remain in place, while considering a preliminary court request and called Trump’s directive on the citizenship of “blatantly unconstitutional” birth law. Cughenour, who sits in the Federal Court in Seattle, is scheduled to hold a hearing on Thursday to consider whether to issue a preliminary judicial order.