Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a legal challenge against President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship, calling it an unconstitutional action that violates the rights of those born in the United States.

Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.

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The legal challenge underscores the historical roots of birthright citizenship, noting that the 14th Amendment was ratified in response to the Dred Scott decision, which denied citizenship to African Americans. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice affirmed birthright citizenship, including for children born to undocumented parents.

Nevada's attorney general joins nearly two dozen of his counterparts in challenging an executive order he calls a "unilateral attack on the constitutional rights of Americans."

Attorneys general from 18 states, including Nevada, sued the Trump administration Tuesday to stop it from seeking to eliminate birthright citizenship, a protection guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.

Eighteen states, plus the District of Columbia and San Francisco sued in federal court to block Trump's order.