The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to end automatic birthright citizenship, delivering a major setback to one of his key immigration policies. In a 6-3 ruling, the court held that Trump’s executive order seeking to deny citizenship to some children born on U.S. soil violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to nearly everyone born in the country.
The decision preserves the long-standing principle of birthright citizenship, a constitutional right that has been upheld for more than a century. The court ruled that such a fundamental constitutional protection cannot be changed through an executive order alone.
The ruling is being seen as a significant defeat for the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. While Trump has vowed to continue pursuing immigration reforms through other legal or legislative means, the judgment ensures that children born in the United States will continue to receive U.S. citizenship regardless of their parents’ immigration status, subject to the Constitution’s existing exceptions.
