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What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through what the amendment says,

Opinion

Newsweek on MSN · 22h

Donald Trump Is Emphatically Correct About Birthright Citizenship

Because when it comes to birthright citizenship, the virtue signaling and armchair excoriation is not just silly -- it's dead wrong on the law. Trump's Jan. 20 executive order on birthright citizenship is legally sound and fundamentally just.

Opinion

Sun Journal · 21h

Birthright citizenship stunt is classic Trump

Overruling the 14th Amendment by executive order is a gambit that is unlikely to change the law, but starts a fight the president wants to have.

Christian Science Monitor · 3d

Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship could upend 150 years of law

President Trump’s order curtailing birthright citizenship faces lawsuits over the 14th Amendment. This may be prelude to other efforts to end it.

CNN on MSN · 3d

Birthright citizenship: Why the ‘right of soil’ is so big in the Americas

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them are in the Western Hemisphere. The reason is more complicated than you might think.

4don MSN

Missouri AG backs up Trump's birthright citizenship order, argues 14th Amendment has been 'perverted'

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey defended Trump's opening volley of executive orders, saying he within his rights to end birthright ...

WJBK3h

THE INTERVIEW: Birthright Citizenship: Constitutional Guarantee or Policy Debate?

Birthright citizenship in the U.S. is based on the 14th Amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on ...

Mother Jones13d

Actually, the 14th Amendment Still Exists

Trump signed an executive order purporting to rewrite birthright citizenship. That's not how the Constitution works.

9don MSN

The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

How Trump Could Snatch a Third Term — Despite the 22nd Amendment

Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar ...

The Tennessean (Nashville) on MSN12d

What is birthright citizenship? Can Trump get rid of it? What to know about executive order

Birthright citizenship grants automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of immigrants in the country and is enshrined in ...

8don MSN

Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified.

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, reports ...

The Root on MSN6d

Trump Trying to Overturn the 14th Amendment Should Scare the Hell out of Every American

No U.S. president has ever gone after the 14th Amendment before, but Trump’s birthright citizenship attack isn’t the first time this amendment has been under fire. Ironically, 2025 marks 30 years ...

New York Sun1d

Democrats’ Hypocrisy on Birthright Citizenship

The Supreme Court will have the final say and will almost certainly interpret the 14th Amendment in Mr. Trump's favor.

2don MSN

What Does Biden’s ERA Statement Mean?

Q: Did former President Joe Biden issue a statement saying that he thought the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered ...

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