The Supreme Court has decided to rule on the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order to end automatic birthright citizenship for all children born on U.S. soil. Trump issued the order at the beginning of his term in January. Since then legal challenges have prevented it from taking effect.
The key issue the Court will consider is whether the wording of the 14th Amendment sanctions the current practice of granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. It is expected to make its decision in June.
Arguing for the administration, Solicitor General D. John Sauer stated that “The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children, not to the children of illegal aliens, birth tourists, and temporary visitors,” Sauer wrote. “The plain text of the Clause requires more than birth on U.S. soil alone.”
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