Attorney General Rob Bonta emerges from Gov. Gavin Newsom's shadow with the state's first lawsuit against the Trump administration over birthright citizenship.

President Donald Trump's administration has directed U.S. prosecutors to criminally probe state and local officials who resist immigration enforcement efforts, intensifying a sweeping crackdown that Trump launched the day he took office.

18 state attorneys general – led by California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts – argue that President Trump’s unprecedented executive order violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Section 1401 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and should be immediately blocked from going into effect while litigation proceeds.

Attorney General Rob Bonta said he would defend birthright citizenship following an executive order by President Donald Trump, as California officials gear up for what is expected to be many legal challenges involving the new administration.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta held an Immigrant Rights Committee Meeting releasing new resources for immigrant students and families.

President Trump signed executive orders that will fundamentally change how the nation handles immigration, beefing up enforcement and deportations.

In an interview with KCRA 3 right before President Trump began taking the executive action, Bonta signaled his office was keeping a close eye on Trump's attempts to militarize immigration enforcement activity and his executive order to get rid of birthright citizenship.

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President Donald Trump announced a new investment in artificial intelligence on Tuesday, as some of his Day 1 executive actions were set into motion.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove said that local laws that don't match Trump's immigration plans threaten national security.

California filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration's executive order that would revoke the right of guaranteed citizenship to anyone born in the country, citing violations of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The Justice Department will investigate state and local officials who stand in the way of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown: memo.