State attorneys general, like New Jersey's Matthew Platkin, are actively defending residents' rights against federal overreach, particularly regarding birthright citizenship. Trump's attempt to alter the 14th Amendment poses significant risks. Such changes could undermine essential state-administered services reliant on citizenship status. The federal government has failed to clarify how states should handle the proposed new citizenship rules, prompting immediate legal challenges to protect residents from potential harms.
The president attempted for the first time since the Civil War to rewrite the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution in a way that said babies born on U.S. soil were not in fact entitled to the rights and privileges of United States citizenship.
What would have happened would have been devastating for our state. We administer a whole range of benefits, educational benefits, health care, a whole host of other social services that depend on your citizenship status.
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