The US Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the right to birthright citizenship, rejecting an executive order by President Donald Trump that sought to end the longstanding constitutional guarantee for many children born to immigrants in the United States.
“Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause,” the court said in its ruling.
The justices had signalled during oral arguments in April that they were likely to uphold the constitutional principle that individuals born in the United States to non-US citizens are automatically granted citizenship.
