🔗 Share this article The nation's highest court will review legal challenge questioning automatic citizenship for those born in the US. The top court has will hear a pivotal case that questions a century-old principle: birthright citizenship for those born in the United States. On the inaugural day in office this January, the administration signed an order aiming to halt this practice, but the move was subsequently blocked by lower courts after constitutional questions were initiated. The Supreme Court's ultimate judgment will either affirm citizenship rights for the infants of immigrants who are in the US without authorization or on temporary visas, or it will end them completely. Next, the judges will schedule a date to hear oral arguments between the administration and claimants, which involve foreign-born parents and their infants. The Legal Foundation For nearly 160 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has enshrined the rule that anyone born in the United States is a American citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to diplomats and personnel of occupying armies. "Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The contested presidential order sought to withhold citizenship to the children of people who are whether in the US illegally or are in the country on non-permanent visas. The United States is one of about a minority of states – largely in the Americas – that grant instant citizenship to any person born in their territory.
The top court has will hear a pivotal case that questions a century-old principle: birthright citizenship for those born in the United States. On the inaugural day in office this January, the administration signed an order aiming to halt this practice, but the move was subsequently blocked by lower courts after constitutional questions were initiated. The Supreme Court's ultimate judgment will either affirm citizenship rights for the infants of immigrants who are in the US without authorization or on temporary visas, or it will end them completely. Next, the judges will schedule a date to hear oral arguments between the administration and claimants, which involve foreign-born parents and their infants. The Legal Foundation For nearly 160 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has enshrined the rule that anyone born in the United States is a American citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to diplomats and personnel of occupying armies. "Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The contested presidential order sought to withhold citizenship to the children of people who are whether in the US illegally or are in the country on non-permanent visas. The United States is one of about a minority of states – largely in the Americas – that grant instant citizenship to any person born in their territory.