A federal judge in Maryland on Feb. 5 became the second judge in the country to halt the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship in the United States.
Judge Deborah Boardman of the U.S. District Court in Maryland on Feb. 5 ruled in favor of two immigrant rights organizations and five pregnant women who argued that Trump’s order would unconstitutionally deny U.S. citizenship to their future children based on their parents’ immigration status.
