🔗 Share this article US Supreme Court has decided to consider legal challenge challenging automatic citizenship for those born in the US. The nation's highest court has agreed to take on a landmark case that challenges a historic constitutional right: automatic citizenship for individuals born within US borders. On his first day in office this January, President Donald Trump enacted a directive aiming to halt this practice, but the action was subsequently blocked by lower courts after legal challenges were filed. The Supreme Court's ultimate decision will either affirm citizenship rights for the infants of immigrants who are in the US illegally or on temporary visas, or it will nullify them altogether. Next, the judges will schedule a date to hear oral arguments between the administration and claimants, which include immigrant parents and their young children. The 14th Amendment For more than 150 years, the 14th Amendment has established the rule that every person born in the nation is a citizen, with exceptions for children born to diplomats and personnel of invading forces. "Anyone born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The challenged presidential order sought to deny citizenship to the children of people who are either in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on temporary visas. The United States belongs to a group of about three dozen nations – largely in the North and South America – that provide automatic citizenship to any person born on their soil.
The nation's highest court has agreed to take on a landmark case that challenges a historic constitutional right: automatic citizenship for individuals born within US borders. On his first day in office this January, President Donald Trump enacted a directive aiming to halt this practice, but the action was subsequently blocked by lower courts after legal challenges were filed. The Supreme Court's ultimate decision will either affirm citizenship rights for the infants of immigrants who are in the US illegally or on temporary visas, or it will nullify them altogether. Next, the judges will schedule a date to hear oral arguments between the administration and claimants, which include immigrant parents and their young children. The 14th Amendment For more than 150 years, the 14th Amendment has established the rule that every person born in the nation is a citizen, with exceptions for children born to diplomats and personnel of invading forces. "Anyone born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The challenged presidential order sought to deny citizenship to the children of people who are either in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on temporary visas. The United States belongs to a group of about three dozen nations – largely in the North and South America – that provide automatic citizenship to any person born on their soil.