🔗 Share this article US Supreme Court has decided to consider lawsuit questioning citizenship by birth. The top court has agreed to take on a landmark case that challenges a century-old guarantee: guaranteed citizenship for people born within US borders. On his first day in office this winter, the President issued an executive order aiming to end this practice, but the move was subsequently blocked by the judiciary after lawsuits were brought forward. The Supreme Court's ultimate ruling will ultimately affirm citizenship rights for the offspring of immigrants who are in the US undocumented or on non-immigrant visas, or it will nullify those rights entirely. Next, the court will set a time to hear oral arguments between the federal government and claimants, which involve foreign-born parents and their young children. A Constitutional Cornerstone For over a century and a half, the 14th Amendment has codified the principle that every person born in the country is a American citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to foreign diplomats and members of foreign military forces. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The challenged directive sought to refuse 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 – primarily in the Americas – that award immediate citizenship to anyone born on their soil.
The top court has agreed to take on a landmark case that challenges a century-old guarantee: guaranteed citizenship for people born within US borders. On his first day in office this winter, the President issued an executive order aiming to end this practice, but the move was subsequently blocked by the judiciary after lawsuits were brought forward. The Supreme Court's ultimate ruling will ultimately affirm citizenship rights for the offspring of immigrants who are in the US undocumented or on non-immigrant visas, or it will nullify those rights entirely. Next, the court will set a time to hear oral arguments between the federal government and claimants, which involve foreign-born parents and their young children. A Constitutional Cornerstone For over a century and a half, the 14th Amendment has codified the principle that every person born in the country is a American citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to foreign diplomats and members of foreign military forces. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The challenged directive sought to refuse 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 – primarily in the Americas – that award immediate citizenship to anyone born on their soil.