This one has been thrown into the mire by no one less than federal judge John Coughenour while issuing a temporary block for the next 14 days. Citing the order an, "blatantly unconstitutional piece of work".
The US president Donald Trump mentioned that he's going to be appealing the current ruling that restricts birth-right citizenship to American citizens and even Green Card holder babies.
One of the first executive orders he signed after he became president on Monday, is causing ruckus among the Indians, hundreds of thousands of whom are on temporary visas like H1-B for professionals and L1 for intracompany transferees, or on those for students and visiting academics.
If they had children born after February 19, they would have lost automatic citizenship known as birthright under Trump's order.
He campaigned on taking action against the illegal migrants who swamped the country by the millions but extended the citizenship restriction to those here legally also.
The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees citizenship to "all persons born" in the US and their rights cannot be limited.
Arguing for the order, the Justice Department said it was part of Trump's efforts to "address this nation's broken immigration system and the ongoing crisis at the Southern border".
Rejecting the submission, Coughenour said that it "boggles" his mind that any lawyer could consider Trump's order constitutional.
The petition was filed by Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon before the federal court in Seattle.
There are similar appeals against the order by other states and cities in other federal courts.
The law firm of Reddy, Neumann, Brown which specialises in immigration matters said it may take three to five years for the matter to be resolved.
The 14th Amendment was passed in 1868 by Congress to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that denied citizenship to the children of freed African American slaves.
The lawyers representing the states, in a court filing, accused Trump of trying "to impose a modern version" of the Supreme Court's overturned racist ruling.
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