🔗 Share this article America's top judicial body will consider case challenging citizenship by birth. The nation's highest court has agreed to take on a landmark case that challenges a longstanding principle: automatic citizenship for individuals born within US borders. On the inaugural day in office this winter, President Donald Trump enacted a directive aiming to terminate birthright citizenship, but the order was halted by the judiciary after constitutional questions were initiated. The Supreme Court's final judgment will ultimately affirm citizenship rights for the children of migrants who are in the US illegally or on non-immigrant visas, or it will overturn those rights entirely. Next, the judges will calendar a session to hear the case between the government and plaintiffs, which involve foreign-born parents and their newborns. The 14th Amendment For nearly 160 years, the Constitutional amendment has codified the principle that all individuals born in the country is a citizen, with specific conditions for children born to foreign diplomats and personnel of invading forces. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The disputed directive sought to refuse citizenship to the offspring of people who are either in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on temporary visas. The United States is among about a minority of states – primarily in the Americas – that award automatic citizenship to anyone born within their borders.
The nation's highest court has agreed to take on a landmark case that challenges a longstanding principle: automatic citizenship for individuals born within US borders. On the inaugural day in office this winter, President Donald Trump enacted a directive aiming to terminate birthright citizenship, but the order was halted by the judiciary after constitutional questions were initiated. The Supreme Court's final judgment will ultimately affirm citizenship rights for the children of migrants who are in the US illegally or on non-immigrant visas, or it will overturn those rights entirely. Next, the judges will calendar a session to hear the case between the government and plaintiffs, which involve foreign-born parents and their newborns. The 14th Amendment For nearly 160 years, the Constitutional amendment has codified the principle that all individuals born in the country is a citizen, with specific conditions for children born to foreign diplomats and personnel of invading forces. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The disputed directive sought to refuse citizenship to the offspring of people who are either in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on temporary visas. The United States is among about a minority of states – primarily in the Americas – that award automatic citizenship to anyone born within their borders.