Bay Area County Joins Legal Battle Over Birthright Citizenship

One of the country’s biggest hubs for H-1B tech workers has jumped into the legal fray over President Donald Trump‘s executive order stripping immigrants’ children of birthright citizenship.

The order, which was temporarily blocked last week by a Seattle judge, would deny citizenship to the children of any foreign resident who is unauthorized or on a temporary legal status beginning next month. Legal experts say it contradicts the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment and attempts to upend more than a century of US case law.

Santa Clara County argued in its complaint filed Jan. 30 in the US District ...