The nation's highest court has decided to review a pivotal case that challenges a century-old guarantee: birthright citizenship for people born in the United States.
On his first day in office this winter, the administration issued an executive order aiming to terminate the policy, but the order was halted by the judiciary after legal challenges were initiated.
The Supreme Court's eventual ruling will ultimately affirm citizenship rights for the offspring of immigrants who are in the US undocumented or on temporary visas, or it will nullify those rights altogether.
Next, the court will schedule a date to hear the case between the federal government and the suing parties, which involve parents who are immigrants and their infants.
For nearly 160 years, the 14th Amendment has established the doctrine that every person born in the country is a citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to foreign diplomats and personnel of occupying armies.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."
The challenged executive order sought to deny citizenship to the offspring of people who are whether in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on temporary visas.
The United States belongs to a group of about three dozen nations – largely in the Western Hemisphere – that award automatic citizenship to all those born on their soil.
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