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The United States Supreme Court has reaffirmed the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, rejecting an attempt by President Donald Trump’s administration to limit automatic citizenship for children born on U.S. soil to certain non-citizen parents. The ruling marks a significant legal setback for Trump’s immigration agenda and preserves a constitutional principle that has stood for more than a century.
In its ruling on Tuesday, the apex court upheld the long-standing interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees U.S. citizenship to virtually everyone born in the country, irrespective of their parents’ immigration status.
Trump had sought to implement an executive order aimed at denying automatic citizenship to children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants and certain non-citizens. However, the policy faced immediate legal challenges and was blocked by lower courts before reaching the Supreme Court.
The justices ruled that the proposed restrictions were inconsistent with constitutional protections and decades of judicial precedent, including the landmark United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision of 1898, which firmly established birthright citizenship under the Constitution.
The decision is being widely viewed as a significant legal setback for the Trump administration and a major victory for immigrant rights advocates, who argued that the executive order violated one of the nation’s fundamental constitutional guarantees.
The ruling effectively preserves birthright citizenship in the United States, maintaining a constitutional principle that has been in place for more than a century.
