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Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Emergency Bid to End Birthright Citizenship

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 20 ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants.
Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Emergency Bid to End Birthright Citizenship
An elementary school teacher holds a baby in Stamford, Conn., on April 20, 2020. She became temporary guardian for the newborn, when the boy's immigrant mother Zully, a Guatemalan asylum seeker, went to a Stamford Hospital emergency room in labor. John Moore/Getty Images
Kimberly Hayek
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An appeals court on Wednesday upheld an order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court judge’s order—the first time an appellate court has ruled on the executive order on birthright citizenship.

Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.