President Donald Trump kicked off his second term on Monday by signing several executive actions aimed at addressing the nation’s ongoing illegal immigration crisis, including an order to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens.
The executive order, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” argued that “the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States” if those individuals’ parents were illegally in the country or not lawful permanent residents at the time of their birth.
‘These lawsuits are nothing more than an extension of the left’s resistance.’
Shortly after Trump signed the executive order, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the administration, arguing that the action was unconstitutional.
The ACLU stated that birthright
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