Trump's Plan to End Birthright Citizenship Faces Legal and Constitutional Challenges

President-elect Donald Trump aims to end birthright citizenship through executive action, but experts cite the Fourteenth Amendment and Supreme Court precedent as significant obstacles.

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants via an executive order on his first day in office.
Legal scholars widely agree that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to all individuals born on U.S. soil, regardless of their parents' immigration status.
The 1898 Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark is a key precedent affirming birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents.
Trump-appointed Judge James Ho has argued that birthright citizenship does not apply to children of 'invading aliens,' though this interpretation is contentious and lacks broad legal support.
Critics warn that ending birthright citizenship could result in mass deportations of U.S.-born children, raising humanitarian, societal, and constitutional concerns.