The story of birthright citizenship is as San Francisco as they come,” City Attorney David Chiu declared. On Tuesday, San Francisco and California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit to halt President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.

Demonstrators gathered outside San Francisco City Hall to voice their opposition to the president-elect, expressing concerns over his policies and their impact on various communities.

A group of Democratic state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday to stop President Trump’s executive order that seeks to eliminate birthright citizenship.

California is one of 22 states and two cities that have quickly challenged Trump’s order to remove birthright citizenship for future children starting next month.

Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.

California joins New Jersey, Massachusetts, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin,

A 3.5-magnitude earthquake near Concord in the East Bay shook the area on Sunday, two days after a quake of similar magnitude struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Francisco on Friday, data from the agency shows. Residents across the region reported mild shaking but no immediate damage from either earthquake.

Universal birthright citizenship has long been considered a constitutional right that got its start in San Francisco, thanks to a gutsy young man in Chinatown.

Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by his opponents to block his agenda in court.

California, a coalition of other states and the city of San Francisco have sued the Trump administration over President Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, calling it unconstitutional.

Council member and executive director, Angel Fabian, provides a voice for the Two-Spirit and Indigequeer community within the Native American communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Trump's executive order is "flagrantly unlawful," attorneys for multiple states, including New Jersey and Delaware, said in a lawsuit.