US EditionEnding Birthright Citizenship Will Mostly Affect US Citizens
- On May 15, 2025, justices convened in Washington, D.C., to deliberate on a Trump administration directive that sought to restrict birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants.
- This executive order challenges the 14th Amendment's guarantee that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and aims to end nationwide injunctions blocking its enforcement.
- The order would require parents to prove citizenship beyond birth certificates and could create stateless children, affecting American parents and complicating legal and bureaucratic processes.
- Nearly 40 nationwide injunctions have blocked Trump policies, and administration lawyers requested scrapping these to limit courts to individual cases, while critics warn this threatens constitutional restraints.
- The ruling could significantly restrict birthright citizenship, destabilize public services, and shift citizenship from a right to a privilege, though the final decision and broader impacts remain uncertain.
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BizTocWhy The Constitution Doesn’t Guarantee Birthright Citizenship
By Quinn Delamater via The Daily Signal | May 27, 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship on his first day back in office in January. Since then, 22 states have sued to block it, sparking debates over whether the Constitution grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. “Many people today take it for granted that the answer is ‘yes’: If you’re born on American soil, you’re an American citizen. Perio…
John Snyder: Ending birthright citizenship will mostly affect US citizens
The Trump administration’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship is a serious challenge to the 14th Amendment, which enshrined a radical principle of our democratic experiment: that anyone born here is an American. But the order will most affect average Americans — whose own citizenship, until this point, has been presumed and assured — rather than the intended target, illegal immigrants. The irony is hiding in plain sight. Contrary to…
Law: The battle over birthright citizenship
President Trump is hoping that "a bit of legal chicanery" will let him shred birthright citizenship, said Stephen I. Vladeck in The New York Times. Three federal judges have barred the administration from enforcing his January executive order, which—in a clear violation of the 14th Amendment—would deny U.S. citizenship to the children of undocumented migrants. But during oral arguments at the Supreme Court last week, administration lawyers didn'…
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