🔗 Share this article The nation's highest court has decided to hear lawsuit questioning birthright citizenship. The top court has agreed to take on a pivotal case that challenges a historic guarantee: automatic citizenship for those born within US borders. On his first day in office this January, the President enacted a directive aiming to terminate this practice, but the order was subsequently blocked by the judiciary after legal challenges were initiated. The Supreme Court's eventual decision will ultimately support citizenship rights for the offspring of foreign nationals who are in the US undocumented or on non-immigrant visas, or it will end those rights completely. Next, the justices will schedule a date to hear the case between the government and the suing parties, which involve immigrant parents and their young children. The 14th Amendment For more than 150 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has established the principle that every person born in the country is a US citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to diplomats and members of occupying armies. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The challenged executive order sought to withhold citizenship to the children of people who are whether in the US illegally or are in the country on short-term status. The United States belongs to a group of about a minority of states – mostly in the North and South America – that provide automatic citizenship to anyone born within their borders.
The top court has agreed to take on a pivotal case that challenges a historic guarantee: automatic citizenship for those born within US borders. On his first day in office this January, the President enacted a directive aiming to terminate this practice, but the order was subsequently blocked by the judiciary after legal challenges were initiated. The Supreme Court's eventual decision will ultimately support citizenship rights for the offspring of foreign nationals who are in the US undocumented or on non-immigrant visas, or it will end those rights completely. Next, the justices will schedule a date to hear the case between the government and the suing parties, which involve immigrant parents and their young children. The 14th Amendment For more than 150 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has established the principle that every person born in the country is a US citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to diplomats and members of occupying armies. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The challenged executive order sought to withhold citizenship to the children of people who are whether in the US illegally or are in the country on short-term status. The United States belongs to a group of about a minority of states – mostly in the North and South America – that provide automatic citizenship to anyone born within their borders.