Trump’s birthright citizenship order raises important questions

Published January 29, 2025 5:10pm ET



Among the executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office was one that established an end to the practice of birthright citizenship.

“The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States,” the order said. “The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.’”

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