The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, struck down President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the US to undocumented immigrants. The court reaffirmed that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship by birth, preserving over 150 years of constitutional precedent and dealing a major legal setback to the administration.
In a closely divided 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States on June 30 (IST) struck down President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants, reaffirming the constitutional protections enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The ruling reinforces more than 150 years of legal precedent established since the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868, preserving the principle that all individuals born on U.S. soil are citizens at birth.
Chief Justice John Roberts stated that children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants fall within the scope of the Constitution's Citizenship Clause.
"Those children are thus subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. They satisfy both elements of the Citizenship Clause: they are 'born . . . in the United States' and 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof.' Under the Constitution, they are citizens at birth," Roberts wrote.
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