Three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Massachusetts upheld a temporary block on an executive order issued by the Trump administration in January that would take away birthright citizenship for the children of some immigrants.

Judge Joseph Laplante, a federal judge based in New Hampshire, temporarily blocked the order from taking effect in February. The government appealed this block, but the appeals court upheld Laplante’s original decision on Friday.

“The ‘lessons of history’ thus give us every reason to be wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather than --in all but the rarest of circumstances– the simple fa

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