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Federal court to hear arguments in a lawsuit that are aimed at stopping the order of Trump’s birthright

Greenbelt, Md. (AP) – A federal court on Wednesday has been established to hear arguments about the temporary pause of the executive command of President Donald Trump to end the birthright citizenship for anyone born in the US to someone in the country illegally.

The order of Trump’s inauguration week is currently in the temporary introduction due to a separate lawsuit that is brought by four states in the state of Washington, where a judge called the order ‘clearly unconstitutional’. “A total of 22 states, like other organizations, have charged to try to try to try to stop the executive action.

The American district judge Deborah Boardman has been set up to hear arguments in the Federal Court of Maryland. Bringing the suit before Boardman are immigrant rights are interest groups Casa and Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, and a handful of expectant mothers.

The core of the lawsuits is the 14th amendment on the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the civil war and the decision of the Supreme Court of Dred Scott that scotted, a slave, was not a citizen.

“The principle of the citizenship of birthright is a basis of our national democracy, is interwoven by the laws of our nation and has formed a shared sense of national feeling for generation after generation of citizens,” claim the plaintiffs in the court case.

The Trump government claims that children of non -citizens are not ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and therefore have no entitlement to citizenship.

“The Constitution does not cherish a windfall clause that provides US citizenship to, among other things: the children of those who have circumvented the federal immigration laws (or fully defies),” the government argued in response to the lawsuit of the claimants of Maryland.

The 14th amendment was added in the aftermath of the Civil War to guarantee citizenship for former slaves and free Afro -Americans. It explains: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subjected to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the State in which they live.”

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In addition to the 22 states with Democratic Attorney General who wanted to stop the command, 18 Republican lawyers -general announced this week that they are trying to defend the president’s order by participating in one of the federal suits brought in New Hampshire .

The US is one of the approximately 30 countries where the citizenship of the birthright – the principle of Jus Soli or “Right of the soil” is applied. Most are in America and Canada and Mexico are among them.

During his first week in office, Trump 10 executive orders on immigration and spent the edicts to carry out promises of mass evictions and border protection.

Some actions were felt immediately. Others stand for legal challenges. If they happen at all, other orders can last years, but have led to anxiety in immigrant communities.

Whether Trump can perform his agenda could come to money. Congress is expected to consider the financing support soon. Trump can use emergency forces to tap into the Ministry of Defense, as he did for a border wall during his first term.

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