HONOLULU (KHON2) -- Hawaiʻi Attorney General Anne Lopez announced that she and 20 other attorneys general are challenging President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, saying that it violates the constitutional rights that children born in the country are entitled to. Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order that would end birthright citizenship, which is a concept that dates back centuries. While at first the U.S. Supreme Court denied birthright citizenship to the descendants of slaves, post-Civil War America adopted the Fourteenth Amendment to protect citizenship for children born in the country. Trump signs multiple executive orders on first day The Fourteenth Amendment reads, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." "The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states in its first words that all persons born in the United States are citizens of this nation. These words could not be clearer," Lopez said. "Under our governmental system, the words of the U.S. Constitution are inviolable, and as the Attorney General of Hawaiʻi, I will defend the rule of law." Children of immigrants born in the U.S. under this executive order would lose their most basic rights, and will be forced to live under the threat of deportation, according to the Attorney General's Office. They would lose the ability for federal programs, not be able to get a Social Security number and will not be able to work lawfully as they grow up. The filing against the executive order says that this action could cause states to lose funding for programs such as Medicaid and foster care. Find more Hawaii, Oahu, Maui and Kauai news here Hawaiʻi joins California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, District of Columbia and the City and County of San Francisco in the filing against the order. Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington state have filed a separate suit in federal court, also challenging the executive order.