The courts will likely strike down Donald Trump's birthright order, a legal analyst has told Newsweek. Newsweek sought email comment from the White House on Wednesday. Trump's executive order against birthright citizenship faces several legal battles in the courts.

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a move to cut off a longstanding constitutional right that could leave hundreds of thousands of Texas children without legal status.

Attorneys general from 22 states have sued to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a century-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.