
‘My world fell apart’: Why this pregnant mom and others are suing the Trump administration
CNN
A grad student in Texas is part of a group of pregnant mothers suing the Trump administration, arguing the recent executive order on birthright citizenship violates the Constitution.
Liza counted the months until Donald Trump would be president. And she counted the months until her baby was due. The timing filled her with dread. She’d learned from a friend that Trump planned to end birthright citizenship, right around the time she’d learned she was pregnant. Last week, the moment she feared came even faster than she expected. “I was shocked that it happened so quickly. … My world fell apart,” says Liza, a grad student in Texas who’s 24 weeks pregnant. Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship, she says, has thrust her family’s life into uncertainty. Now the mass communications student from Russia is part of a group of pregnant moms – and advocacy organizations who represent them – who are fighting back. “We have to do it for us, for our baby, and for all the other people like us,” she told CNN.