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Supreme Court lifts blocks on Trump birthright citizenship order

The executive order made clear that the children of parents who are illegally in the country or present on temporary visas are not automatically entitled to citizenship.

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The order from Trump challenges the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment in recent decades, which guaranteed automatic citizenship to nearly all persons born within United States territory. File Image.

The Supreme Court lifted blocks against President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship in a decision released last week.

 

The executive order made clear that the children of parents who are illegally in the country or present on temporary visas are not automatically entitled to citizenship. The ruling, in which the three progressive Justices dissented, allows the order to potentially take effect in some states, though it does not address the constitutionality of the measure itself.

 

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