On Wednesday Judge Deborah Boardman of the U.S. District Court of Maryland issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.”
The purpose of that executive order is to end federal recognition of birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, a practice the Justice Department properly argues creates a “perverse incentive for illegal immigration.”
In issuing the injunction, Judge Boardman explained, “The executive order conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment, contradicts 125-year-old binding Supreme Court precedent and runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth.”
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