Federal court blocks Trump birthright citizenship order
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Federal judge in New Hampshire stayed the order for seven days to allow the Department of Justice to appeal. He called birthright citizenship "the greatest privilege that exists in the world."
The justices didn’t rule on the constitutionality of Trump’s restrictions but paused nationwide injunctions in three cases that had blocked the policy
The president’s executive order denies citizenship to individuals born to parents living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily.
In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that the children of immigrants who were born in the United States had the right to citizenship—even if their parents weren’t citizens themselves. This is Wong Kim Ark’s story.