The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional right of babies born in the US to citizenship, rejecting former president Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the 150-year-old program in a blow for him.
Chief Justice John Roberts declared 6-3 that children born in the US “to parents unlawfully or temporarily present” are “citizens at birth” under the 14th Amendment. President Trump had attempted to curtail that right via executive order, contending that children of undocumented immigrants and of some temporary visitors were not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” and hence not eligible for birthright citizenship.
The decision is a significant blow to Trump’s immigration program and has been lauded by human rights groups.On Truth Social, Trump remarked that the court’s judgment was “very unfortunate” and vowed to continue to seek to remove birthright citizenship through legislation. We don’t need a long, complicated constitutional amendment,” he remarked. “Congress should begin work TODAY to end costly and very unfair to our country birthright citizenship.The U.S. has given citizenship to anybody born in the country since 1868. That right is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and supported by subsequent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
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