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A federal court judge has temporarily blocked one of the centerpieces of President Trump's rapid fire reshaping of American policy.

Today a Reagan appointed judge declaring the president's order to end birthright

citizenship blatantly unconstitutional and putting a pause on the president's action. It's the

first but likely not the last legal challenge to the Trump administration's crackdown on

immigration, which the White House reports is already underway tonight with

hundreds of arrests of undocumented immigrants, though in numbers similar so far to those carried

out under the Biden administration. Gabe Gutierrez now with the latest from the White

House. Tonight, the first legal roadblock for President Trump's new immigration agenda, a federal judge temporarily blocking the president's attempt to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants.

The Constitution's 14th Amendment says anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen.

Trump believes it's a magnet for illegal immigration, but a judge today calling the

president's move a blatantly unconstitutional order. They put it before a certain judge in Seattle,

I guess, right? And there's no surprises with that judge. The legal showdown comes as the White

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