🔗 Share this article US Supreme Court has decided to hear legal challenge challenging automatic citizenship for those born in the US. The US Supreme Court has agreed to take on a significant case that challenges a longstanding principle: birthright citizenship for people born in the United States. On day one in office this winter, the administration enacted a directive aiming to end the policy, but the order was struck down by lower courts after lawsuits were brought forward. The Supreme Court's ultimate judgment will either affirm citizenship rights for the infants of migrants who are in the US illegally or on non-immigrant visas, or it will nullify the provision entirely. Next, the justices will schedule a date to hear the case between the government and claimants, which involve parents who are immigrants and their infants. The 14th Amendment For more than 150 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has established the principle that all individuals born in the country is a American citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to embassy personnel and personnel 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 disputed presidential order sought to deny citizenship to the children of people who are whether in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on temporary visas. The United States is one of about three dozen nations – primarily in the Western Hemisphere – that grant immediate citizenship to all those born on their soil.
The US Supreme Court has agreed to take on a significant case that challenges a longstanding principle: birthright citizenship for people born in the United States. On day one in office this winter, the administration enacted a directive aiming to end the policy, but the order was struck down by lower courts after lawsuits were brought forward. The Supreme Court's ultimate judgment will either affirm citizenship rights for the infants of migrants who are in the US illegally or on non-immigrant visas, or it will nullify the provision entirely. Next, the justices will schedule a date to hear the case between the government and claimants, which involve parents who are immigrants and their infants. The 14th Amendment For more than 150 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has established the principle that all individuals born in the country is a American citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to embassy personnel and personnel 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 disputed presidential order sought to deny citizenship to the children of people who are whether in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on temporary visas. The United States is one of about three dozen nations – primarily in the Western Hemisphere – that grant immediate citizenship to all those born on their soil.