President Donald Trump's executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally has faced the first of what will be many legal tests. It didn't fare well.

A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's controversial executive order targeting birthright citizenship, dealing an early blow to the administration's aggressive immigration reforms.

WASHINGTON D.C. – A federal judge temporarily Thursday halted President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed to terminate automatic citizenship for children born on American soil, marking the first setback of the president’s attempts to change the nation’s immigration laws and undo decades of precedent, reported the New York Times.