🔗 Share this article The nation's highest court agrees to consider case questioning citizenship by birth. The nation's highest court has will hear a significant case that puts to the test a century-old principle: automatic citizenship for individuals born within US borders. On the inaugural day in office this winter, the administration enacted a directive aiming to terminate this practice, but the order was struck down by federal courts after legal challenges were filed. The Supreme Court's final ruling will either affirm citizenship rights for the children of migrants who are in the US without authorization or on temporary visas, or it will overturn them altogether. Next, the justices will schedule a date to hear oral arguments between the government and plaintiffs, which involve foreign-born parents and their newborns. The Legal Foundation For nearly 160 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has enshrined the doctrine that anyone born in the nation is a US citizen, with specific conditions for children born to embassy personnel and members of foreign military forces. "Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The disputed executive 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 short-term status. The United States is among about a minority of states – primarily in the North and South America – that award automatic citizenship to anyone born on their soil.
The nation's highest court has will hear a significant case that puts to the test a century-old principle: automatic citizenship for individuals born within US borders. On the inaugural day in office this winter, the administration enacted a directive aiming to terminate this practice, but the order was struck down by federal courts after legal challenges were filed. The Supreme Court's final ruling will either affirm citizenship rights for the children of migrants who are in the US without authorization or on temporary visas, or it will overturn them altogether. Next, the justices will schedule a date to hear oral arguments between the government and plaintiffs, which involve foreign-born parents and their newborns. The Legal Foundation For nearly 160 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has enshrined the doctrine that anyone born in the nation is a US citizen, with specific conditions for children born to embassy personnel and members of foreign military forces. "Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The disputed executive 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 short-term status. The United States is among about a minority of states – primarily in the North and South America – that award automatic citizenship to anyone born on their soil.