A federal judge in New Hampshire has issued a nationwide injunction against President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States since February 20. In a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of immigrant parents, the ACLU argued that the order would leave children born to undocumented parents “effectively stateless.” We speak to ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt about the case, which he calls “cruel” and without merit, as well as new evidence that the Trump administration is lying about its power over people it has expelled to the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT.
Full article on the Democracy Now website at — http://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/11/birthright_citizenship_class_action_lee_gelernt
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