US supreme court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump agenda
by Rachel Leingang from US news | The Guardian on (#76NNB)
Court rules against Trump administration on policy that people born in the United States are citizens
The US supreme court has upheld birthright citizenship, which provides nearly all people born in the country with citizenship, ruling against a central piece of Donald Trump's anti-immigrant agenda.
Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause," the ruling says.
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