Salvadorans sue Trump for limiting birthright citizenship

Two Salvadoran women and one Honduran woman, all three pregnant, filed a lawsuit on Friday in a US federal court against President Donald Trump for issuing a decree prohibiting birthright citizenship, the Centroamérica 360º site reported, citing the Seattle Times.

According to the source, the class action lawsuit was filed by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in the District Court for the Western District of Washington State on behalf of the petitioners and other affected individuals living in Washington.

In it, Salvadorans Delmy Franco Alemán and Alicia Chavarría López, as well as Honduran Cherly Norales Castillo, point out that some children could become “stateless” under the executive order, not recognized as citizens in the United States or in their countries of origin. of their parents.

“Citizenship is the fundamental marker of belonging to this country,” the lawsuit states.

“In fact, without citizenship, the babies soon to be born in this country who President Trump seeks to unilaterally and unconstitutionally strip of citizenship will be left without any legal immigration status,” he adds.

Trump’s executive order has quickly drawn opposition as an affront to constitutional law and was temporarily banned by a federal judge in Seattle, among others across the country.

The 14th Amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

In addition to Trump, the lawsuit names Secretary of State Marco Rubio; to the Department of State, Acting Attorney General James McHenry, the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Agriculture and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to the same information.