New Jersey joins lawsuit to stop Trump's push to upend birthright citizenship, AG says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : "When President Trump was elected Nov. 5, I made it clear my hope is that he would act in ways that were in the best interest of our communities, of our residents, of our neighbors, of our friends," Platkin said.
49% : States joining Platkin in today's filing include California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia and San Francisco.
48% : According to the suit, the order would also harm states which stand to lose federal funding to programs that they administer, such as Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and foster care and adoption assistance programs.
45% : "Trump had mentioned moving forward with an order to end birthright citizenship while on the campaign trail.
31% : "Platkin said New Jersey -- along with 17 other states, the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco -- is challenging the executive order ending birthright citizenship, signed just hours after Trump was sworn in.
27% : Anthony Romero, ACLU executive director, said in a statement that "denying citizenship to U.S.-born children is not only unconstitutional - it's also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values.""This order seeks to repeat one of the gravest errors in American history, by creating a permanent subclass of people born in the U.S. who are denied full rights as Americans," Romero said.Trump's order would take effect in the next 30 days and directed the Social Security Administration to no longer recognize the children as citizens and the State Department to stop issuing them passports.

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