A new document obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reveals a secret resistance plan agreement between 22 blue states, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco following President Donald Trump’s election landslide in November.
In a Monday statement on X, formerly Twitter, the Oversight Project announced, “We have obtained a secret agreement between 22 blue states, DC, and San Francisco, signed beginning on November 8, 2024. This agreement, just 3 days after President Trump’s landslide election win, shows that these resistance actors began, as a matter of absolute urgent top priority, plotting their resistance to President Trump’s anticipated actions to end birthright citizenship.”
Following his inauguration on January 20, Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants in the United States. The 47th president argued that the Fourteenth Amendment excludes birthright citizenship privileges from individuals “who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.’”
The Associated Press reported that Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship has been blocked by judges in New Hampshire, Washington, and Maryland.
According to the secret agreement made following Trump’s election victory, the attorneys general of 22 blue states agreed to work together to resist Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. The 22 blue states agreed in November to “pursue their common interest” by sharing “information, documents, and communications” related to the resistance plan against the incoming president.
The agreement stated, “The Parties have agreed that they have a common interest in developing potential litigation to challenge executive action related to ending or curtailing birthright citizenship.”
As part of the agreement, the 22 blue states agreed to share information that could be used to file complaints, dispositive motions, amicus briefs, merits briefs, and other legal actions.
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The secret agreement obtained by the Oversight Project was signed by the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C.
“Despite the mandate from the American People to end the border crisis and return immigration enforcement to the United States, politicians instead acted to frantically preserve their perceived political gains of the Biden Border Crisis,” the Oversight Project wrote in Monday’s statement. “Their top priority was not gas, groceries, public safety, or any other matter of concerns of their citizen constituents, but instead a raw political calculus to ensure that the future children of the illegal aliens that entered during the Biden Border Crisis could turn into voters.”
The Oversight Project added, “Instead of trying to win back American voters, they seek to create new ones to replace them on the back of the worst border crisis in American history.”
