🔗 Share this article US Supreme Court agrees to review legal challenge disputing automatic citizenship for those born in the US. The top court has decided to review a pivotal case that puts to the test a century-old guarantee: automatic citizenship for individuals born within US borders. On day one in office this winter, the President issued an executive order aiming to end the policy, but the action was halted by the judiciary after constitutional questions were filed. The Supreme Court's ultimate judgment will ultimately support citizenship rights for the infants of migrants who are in the US undocumented or on short-term permits, or it will end them completely. Next, the justices will set a time to hear arguments between the federal government and the suing parties, which include foreign-born parents and their newborns. A Constitutional Cornerstone For over a century and a half, the Fourteenth Amendment has codified the rule that every person born in the nation is a US citizen, with specific conditions for children born to embassy personnel and personnel of occupying armies. "Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The disputed presidential order sought to withhold citizenship to the offspring of people who are whether in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on non-permanent visas. The United States is among about 30 countries – primarily in the North and South America – that award immediate citizenship to anyone born within their borders.
The top court has decided to review a pivotal case that puts to the test a century-old guarantee: automatic citizenship for individuals born within US borders. On day one in office this winter, the President issued an executive order aiming to end the policy, but the action was halted by the judiciary after constitutional questions were filed. The Supreme Court's ultimate judgment will ultimately support citizenship rights for the infants of migrants who are in the US undocumented or on short-term permits, or it will end them completely. Next, the justices will set a time to hear arguments between the federal government and the suing parties, which include foreign-born parents and their newborns. A Constitutional Cornerstone For over a century and a half, the Fourteenth Amendment has codified the rule that every person born in the nation is a US citizen, with specific conditions for children born to embassy personnel and personnel of occupying armies. "Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The disputed presidential order sought to withhold citizenship to the offspring of people who are whether in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on non-permanent visas. The United States is among about 30 countries – primarily in the North and South America – that award immediate citizenship to anyone born within their borders.