President Trump has issued an executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship, a policy that grants citizenship to anyone born in the US regardless of their parents' immigration status. The order, facing immediate legal challenges, seeks to revise the interpretation of the 14th Amendment and establish stricter criteria for acquiring citizenship.
moved to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship when he ordered the cancellation of the constitutional guarantee that US-born children are citizens regardless of their parents' status.
Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the US is a citizen, regardless of their parents' immigration status. The 14th Amendment was born in the aftermath of the Civil War and ratified in 1868. It says: "All persons born or naturalised in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
In 1898 an important birthright citizenship case unfolded in the US Supreme Court. The court held that Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, was a US citizen because he was born in the country. New Jersey Democratic Attorney General Matt Platkin said the president cannot undo a right written into the Constitution with a stroke of his pen.Not long after Trump signed the order, immigrant rights groups filed suit to stop it.
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