Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court
- Written by Jean Lantz Reisz, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship resurrects a dissenting argument in an 1898 case that went before the Supreme Court. iStock/Getty Images PlusFor more than 150 years, people who were born within U.S. territory automatically received citizenship – regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
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