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WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has ruled that children born in the United States will continue to receive automatic American citizenship, rejecting an executive order that sought to limit the long-standing constitutional right.
The decision means that babies born in the US, including those whose parents are Pakistani nationals living, studying or working there, will continue to qualify for citizenship under existing law.
In its majority ruling, the court said children born on US soil remain protected by the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which grants citizenship to people born in the country and subject to its jurisdiction.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the majority opinion along with Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the outcome, while three other conservative justices dissented.
The case centered on an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that aimed to deny citizenship to certain children born in the US if their parents were in the country illegally or held temporary immigration status. Lower courts had previously blocked the order, saying it conflicted with the Constitution.
The Supreme Court’s ruling, legal experts claim, upholds a 150-plus-year-old constitutional tenet and offers peace of mind for families in the U.S.
Civil rights groups welcomed the ruling, saying it is an important win for constitutional protections. But the president plans to “see what can be done” about birthright citizenship issues in the future via legislation, he said.
The decision upholds the current birthright citizenship policy in effect in the U.S. until it is modified by future constitutional and legal interpretations.
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