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Pregnant women throughout the United States have filed lawsuits towards the federal authorities after President Donald Trump signed an government order ending birthright citizenship. 

In states like Maryland, Washington, and Massachusetts, pregnant women have filed lawsuits following Trump’s motion final week that has been vehemently criticized for being “blatantly unconstitutional,” Law and Crime reported.

The order has additionally been challenged by legal professional generals of 18 states and two main cities, particularly Washington D.C. and San Francisco who’ve all joined forces to file a joint lawsuit within the federal district court docket in Massachusetts on Jan. 21

It got here a day after Trump was sworn in because the forty seventh President of the United States following which he signed a flurry of government orders, together with these aimed toward strict immigration crackdown on the borders. 

According to the lawsuit, “Plaintiffs bring this action to protect their states, localities, and residents from the President’s flagrantly unlawful attempt to strip hundreds of thousands of American-born children of their citizenship based on their parentage.”

The criticism referenced the birthright citizenship precept that has been a half of the US Constitution for more than 150 years.

“The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment unambiguously and expressly confers citizenship on ‘[a]ll persons born’ in and ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States. More than 125 years ago, the Supreme Court confirmed that this entitles a child born in the United States to noncitizen parents to automatic citizenship,” it added.

Filed towards Trump and the US authorities, the lawsuit highlights that birthright citizenship was codified by Congress within the Immigration and Nationality Act and that denying citizenship to youngsters based mostly on their mother and father’ immigration statuses can be “unquestionably unconstitutional” as has been “long recognized” by the Congress.

The lawsuit additionally names the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the Department of State, Attorney General James McHenry, the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Agriculture, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

“President Trump now seeks to abrogate this well-established and longstanding Constitutional principle by executive fiat,” the lawsuit stated.

The women have been joined by two immigration advocacy teams in condemning Trump’s “flagrant violation of the Fourteenth Amendment” that ensures the “fundamental right to citizenship for all children born in the United States.”

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Talking about how birthright citizenship has been the “foundation of our national democracy,” their criticism says, “The President has no unilateral authority to override rights recognized in the Constitution or federal statutes.”

Following Trump’s inauguration, a handful of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have swept throughout the nation, together with sanctuary states like New Jersey and New York.

On Thursday, the ICE stated they’ve made 538 arrests and detained 373 undocumented immigrants in states like New York, Colorado, New Jersey, and Minnesota, amongst others.

“This is merely a small preview into the work the Trump administration is doing to secure our nation’s borders,” the White House stated on X.

“ICE is doing their job, and they’re prioritizing, just as the president said they would. So ICE is performing excellent right now out in the field, and they’re going to continue every day,” Trump-appointed border czar, Tom Homan instructed Fox News.