, Neb. —

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is co-leading a coalition in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship.

The announcement is connected to litigation involving 24 states — including Nebraska — asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the executive order.

In a news release Friday, Bird said Trump’s executive order is an attempt to close the “birthright citizenship loophole” and to “restore” the 14th Amendment’s original purpose.

"It would mean that being born in the United States no longer means you're a citizen," Omaha Immigration Attorney Julia Cryne said.

Birthright citizenship means anyone born on American soil is considered a U.S. citizen. It was established in the late 1700s and later revised in the 1860s through the 14th Amendment, whi

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