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Nineteen degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening across the country. Several states are filing lawsuits against President Trump over his executive order to end birthright citizenship, including the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. More from ABC's Alex Stone.
The first line of the Fourteenth Amendment states somebody born in the United States is a US citizen, and for that reason. Eighteen states are now suing, arguing President Trump's executive order is clearly unconstitutional and cannot be enforced. California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
I have one message for President Trump.
I'll see you in court.
He and other attorney's general are asking a court for an immediate injunction to prevent the executive order from going into effect.
Alex Stone, EBC News. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell says birthright citizenship in our country is a guarantee of a quality or out of a collective fight against depression, slavery and its devastating harms. Interviews so on hold that the Mexican border, those waiting at the border to talk with Customs and Border Protection have no way to schedule a meeting.
Under the Biden administration, of phone app called CBP one allowed asylum seekers to make appointments with Customs and Border Protection to begin the legal immigration process. The app has gone.
Dead as of right now. We're in Lingmore.
Pastor Carlos Navarro works with immigrants in Brownsville, Texas. He's adapting to a new reality under President Trump.
Because we've seen the movie before. I think we can handle it. We're ready to do it.
Jim Ryan, ABC News Dallas.
One day after the forty seventh president was inaugurated, his Secretary of State was sworn in, Marco Rubio, taking the oath of office.
As Rubio gets down to work at the State Department, many around the world are still reeling from Trump's first actions in office, like withdrawing from the World Health Organization.
We hope the United States will reconside there.
And Trump suspended US foreign assistance programs until their review.
It's a transformational moment the United States, I think is now, as President Trump pointed out last night, and I believe deeply we are headed into a new era that I think will make the world a safer place.
Any Israelis are hopeful. Who knows, maybe he will be the one who will bring peace to the Middle East, not because he likes peace, but because he is a bully, and maybe in this area that's what we need.
That was CBS's Cammie McCormick reporting. Assistant US Attorney Leah Foley has been promoted to US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Fully has served Massachusetts since two thousand and six, starting her career as Assistant US Attorney for Washington d C. Folly has also served as Deputy Chief of the Narcotics and Money Laundering Unit and the lead attorney for Boston's
Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force. She was appointed by Acting Attorney General James McHenry, fully calling the position the honor of a lifetime. Still have the chiles in the air and we will continue to deal with that. Tonight twelve in Boston for the low two to six and many of the coldest inland suburbs that will be
in the upper teens over the Capean Islands. It is there where we could get in on a few snowflakes as we head deep into the evening around midnight or so and keep your right of the sky, otherwise we'll start to clear out in many other spots, and those real field temperatures are going to get us below zero in some places. Mostly sunny, still cold Tomorrow twenty two for the high and then partly to mostly cloudy Tomorrow night. Temperatures range from about eight in the coldest suburbs sixteen
near the shore clouds with some sun. On Thursday, a little breezy, temperatures get into the low thirties. Same deal for Friday. Right now, we're at nineteen degrees in Boston. Thousands of outfits have been donated to natal intensive carry units in Massachusetts thanks to a local mother who knows about the nick Q. CBS News Boston's Breonna Pitts, how's that story?
This is little baby Ava, she's been in the nick qu at Mount Auburn Hospital for a few weeks now, and that onesie she's wearing, it's from Megan who knows the nick Q all too well.
And know exactly how I felt. And I felt like it was for me, yep, more than it was for the baby, and now than it was for anybody else.
It was for me.
Yeah, definitely, Meghan is talking about the birth of her daughter, Caroline, who was born prematurely at Selshore Hospital at thirty four weeks. She weighed just three pounds, and like most families, Meghan and her husband found themselves completely unprepared, without even one outfit that would fit their tiny daughter. That is until nic Q nurse went above.
And beyond and come to find out the nurse that was caring for her had actually purchased it with her own money. Seeing her in clothes made it like humanized her in some ways for me, and it was really really healing.
Megan Block started Caroline's closet an Amazon wish list with premie sized gowns and one sees cover to more. Heales filing a bill to modernized public higher education campuses in Massachusetts. The Healey Administration says they transformative to two and a half billion dollar bill represents the largest proposed investments in capital improvements for the UMass system, state universities, and community colleges in decades. Called the Bright Act, it is aimed at
modernizing campuses all across the system. Lots of young ballet dancers try to make their mark dancing in my Some might call it the American Idol of Ballet dancing. Hundreds of young dancers from across the Northeast spending the past few days in Massachusetts auditioning for prestigious scholarships at a Youth America Grand Prix. The ballet dancers, ages nine to nineteen,
had just a few moments to impress judges. Organizers say about twelve hundred dancers will be chosen from the thirty two auditions that were held in the US and fourteen locations worldwide. They'll compete in the finals this April in Tampa, Florida. The competition one of the places where future ballet stars are scouted out to perform in elite ballet companies around the world. What's Old is new again? A new president and a new look for the Oval Office.
Photos taken by the Wall Street Journal show the Oval Office now includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh painting of Andrew Jackson, just like four years ago. A painting of George Washington now hangs over the fireplace. A bust of Winston Churchill is back where it was during the first Trump presidency on a table near the fireplace. There's a new silver eagle over the mantle and the
valet button for President Trump to order up. Diet cokex is in place again on his desk and ready to go. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
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