The constitutionality of the measure is questioned. An American judge on Thursday temporarily suspended the challenge to land law ordered by new President Donald Trump, a measure emblematic of his anti-immigration offensive.
“This is a manifestly unconstitutional order,” said federal magistrate John Coughenour, quoted by local media during a hearing in Seattle.
For his part, President Trump has announced that he will appeal this suspension. The Department of Justice, for its part, assured that the presidential decree “correctly interprets” the 14th Amendment. The case is likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Following his inauguration on Monday, Donald Trump signed a decree returning to the rights of the soil, a founding principle enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the American Constitution and applied for more than 150 years in the United States.
-This measure was immediately challenged in court by 22 American states, including California and New York, which pointed out its unconstitutionality.
“I have been a judge for over forty years and I cannot recall another case in which the question asked is as clear as this one,” added Justice Coughenour, suspending the decree.
The executive order was to prohibit the federal government from issuing passports, certificates of citizenship, or other documents to children whose mothers are in the United States illegally or temporarily, and whose fathers are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents (and therefore holder of the famous green card).
