Supreme Court to hear Trump birthright citizenship order case

the supreme court Friday He said he would hear the arguments iunavailable issue That will determine whether the president Donald Trump Automatic rollback possible Citizenship For people born in US.

On his first day back in the White House on January 20, Trump issued a statement Executive order However, children born in the United States more than 30 days after this order are not eligible for citizenship documents if their parents are temporary visitors or undocumented immigrants.

Before Trump’s order, there was little disagreement that Fourteenth Amendment to the US ConstitutionThis meant, with rare exceptions, that children born in the country automatically became American citizens, regardless of the status of their parents.

The Citizenship Clause of this amendment states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

The Supreme Court, which is expected to rule next year, will determine whether Trump’s executive order complies with this amendment.

The order requires federal agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States if their mother is “unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth,” or when the presence of the child’s mother in the United States is lawful but temporary, and the person’s father is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time.

Several federal district court judges found that Trump’s order violated the Constitution, and two federal appeals courts upheld injunctions blocking the order from taking effect.