By Kashmira Konduparty
President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Congress to move quickly to end birthright citizenship through legislation after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutional guarantee of citizenship for nearly all children born on American soil.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump criticized the court’s decision, calling birthright citizenship “too bad for our Country,” but argued that lawmakers could still achieve the administration’s immigration goals without pursuing a constitutional amendment.
“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump wrote. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary. Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!”
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The Supreme Court’s ruling dealt a major blow to one of Trump’s key immigration priorities. The administration had sought to limit automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants and certain temporary visa holders through executive action. The court ruled that birthright citizenship remains protected under the 14th Amendment, reaffirming more than a century of legal precedent.
Rather than signaling the end of the issue, Trump framed the decision as an opportunity for Congress to pursue legislation. He argued that lawmakers now have a path to address what he has repeatedly described as abuse of the nation’s immigration system.
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The legal scholars have long maintained that birthright citizenship is rooted in the Constitution itself. The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction are U.S. citizens. The Supreme Court reinforced that interpretation in its landmark 1898 decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which has served as the foundation for birthright citizenship for more than a century.
Any attempt to substantially alter the constitutional guarantee would likely face immediate legal challenges and could ultimately require either a new constitutional amendment or a reversal of longstanding Supreme Court precedent.
Trump has made restricting birthright citizenship a central part of his broader immigration agenda, arguing that the policy encourages illegal immigration and so-called “birth tourism.”