State Lawsuits Quickly Follow Trump’s Day One Immigration Orders

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On his first day in office Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders to address what he called “an unprecedented flood” of immigration. Terminating birthright citizenship, a right enshrined in the Constitution, declaring a national emergency at the border and seeking funds to build a border wall are just some of Trump’s directives. Many of his orders faced immediate opposition: as of Tuesday, 18 states and two cities had filed lawsuits attacking the legality of the birthright citizenship order. We talk about Trump’s early moves on immigration and how they are impacting immigrants and their families. Guests: Salvador Rivera, correspondent based in San Diego, BorderReport.com Deep Gulasekaram, professor of law and director of Byron White Center for the Study of Constitutional Law, University of Colorado Boulder Law School. He teaches constitutional and immigration law. He is co-author of the leading immigration law textbook used in U.S. law schools. Molly O'Toole, fellow, Wilson Center; Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter currently working on a book on immigration for Penguin Random House[[formerly covered migration and security for the Los Angeles Times]] Rafael Carranza, reporter, Arizona Luminaria, a nonprofit news organization covering Arizona; Carranza covers immigration issues. He previously reported for the Arizona Republic and the USA Today Network. Tyche Hendricks, senior editor covering immigration, KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:34.3	Ever since he came down that escalator 10 years ago, Donald Trump's political compass has been oriented towards attacking immigration and immigrants. And on the first day of his second administration, he put out in an astonishingly, a historical executive action to end the longstanding practice of assigning U.S. citizenship to anyone
1:45.7	born in our country. 18 states, including California and two cities, including San Francisco,
1:51.4	have already filed suit to block the action. Trump also declared an emergency to send troops
1:56.7	to the southern border, among other things. We're going to talk about what's happening,
2:00.5	how immigrant and mixed status communities are preparing, and where this is headed. It's all coming
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2:20.3	Close to a third of the Bay Area's people were born in another country.
2:25.3	Then there are the rest of us, children of immigrants, grandchildren, cousins, siblings.
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