Federal judge blocks President Trump's latest push to restrict birthright citizenship

A federal judge on Wednesday night blocked President Donald Trump's latest attempt to restrict birthright citizenship, which comes months after the Supreme Court ruled that his previous executive order was unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman granted the preliminary injunction in a case brought by two immigration advocacy groups that also challenged the initial attempt last year to limit who is eligible for automatic citizenship at birth.

The president's latest executive order expands the definition of what children born in the United States would be ineligible for automatic citizenship, including children of “alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments." 

Boardman wrote in a 35-page opinion that the new directive was “almost certainly unconstitutional as applied to the certified class."

“This Court must, once again, preliminarily enjoin enforcement of the President’s most recent attempt to strip the right to citizenship from them,” Boardman, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, wrote. 

The president also signed another executive order last month that directs the State Department to issue rules and guidance to stop birth tourism, according to Axios, even as U.S. law already bans tourists from obtaining visas "for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States."

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.