A US district court in Washington state has issued a 14-day emergency temporary restraining order to stop President Trump from implementing the birthright citizenship Executive Order ( EO ) signed on January 20, 2025.
In general, the Entrepreneurship seeks to deter children born in the US after February 19, 2025 from receiving a green card from at least one family. This includes children born to undocumented parents as well as to parents in any non immigrant status, including H-1B, L-1 ( intracompany transfer ), F-1 ( students ), etc. This will have a significant impact on the Indian community in the US, as TOI previously stated.
The purpose of the temporary restraining order is to halt the execution of the Entrepreneurship while the district judge considers its underlying propriety, according to Mitch Wexler, companion at Fragomen, a international immigration law firm. The US government is completely prohibited from enforcing or implementing the EO while the momentary restraining order is in effect. The Trump Administration has the option of taking the restraining order on charm to a higher judge.
In his ruling, Judge John Coughenour stated:” President Trump and the federal government are today trying to impose a contemporary version of Dred Scott. Nothing in the Constitution, however, grants the President, governmental agencies, or any other authority to impose problems on people who were born in the United States. The Citizen Stripping Order, the President’s Executive Order from January 20, 2025, directs federal agencies to endanger those individuals of their rights and declares that children born to illegal parents or those with transitory, constitutional position have citizenship. It is firmly contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment’s words and past, century-old Supreme Court precedent, historic Executive Branch view, and the Immigration and Nationality Act. So, the Plaintiff States have an extremely high chance of succeeding on the virtues of their claims.
If the Entrepreneurship goes over, what next?
How this problem turns out will be seen. In addition, lawsuits have been filed in various city courts. But, if the Entrepreneurship goes by, what next? Wexler explains,” For children born to parents with H-1B, L-1, F-1 or any other lawful, temporary status, these families would presumably be required to obtain evidence of their child’s dependent non-immigrant status ( e. g., H-4, L-2, F-2 etc ) through an immigration application”.
