🔗 Share this article America's top judicial body agrees to hear legal challenge questioning citizenship by birth. The nation's highest court has will hear a landmark case that questions a historic constitutional right: birthright citizenship for people born within US borders. On day one in office this winter, the administration enacted a directive aiming to terminate this practice, but the action was struck down by the judiciary after legal challenges were initiated. The Supreme Court's eventual judgment will either support citizenship rights for the infants of migrants who are in the US illegally or on non-immigrant visas, or it will end those rights entirely. Next, the justices will set a time to hear the case between the government and the suing parties, which comprise parents who are immigrants and their infants. A Constitutional Cornerstone For more than 150 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has enshrined the principle that all individuals born in the nation is a American citizen, with specific conditions for children born to embassy personnel and personnel 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 disputed executive order sought to refuse 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 among about a minority of states – largely in the Americas – that award instant citizenship to all those born on their soil.
The nation's highest court has will hear a landmark case that questions a historic constitutional right: birthright citizenship for people born within US borders. On day one in office this winter, the administration enacted a directive aiming to terminate this practice, but the action was struck down by the judiciary after legal challenges were initiated. The Supreme Court's eventual judgment will either support citizenship rights for the infants of migrants who are in the US illegally or on non-immigrant visas, or it will end those rights entirely. Next, the justices will set a time to hear the case between the government and the suing parties, which comprise parents who are immigrants and their infants. A Constitutional Cornerstone For more than 150 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has enshrined the principle that all individuals born in the nation is a American citizen, with specific conditions for children born to embassy personnel and personnel 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 disputed executive order sought to refuse 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 among about a minority of states – largely in the Americas – that award instant citizenship to all those born on their soil.