Published August 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET · Updated August 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM ET
Critics call Trump's latest birthright citizenship order unconstitutional.
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President Trump signed executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and birth tourism. Critics have called the orders unconstitutional.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Trump v. Barbara held that children born on U.S. soil to parents unlawfully or only temporarily present are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment and struck down Executive Order 14160 as invalid. It reaffirmed United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which held a child born here to non-citizen parents domiciled in the United States is a citizen at birth. A new order targeting birthright citizenship collides with that same barrier.
Trump v. Barbara 609 U.S. ___ (2026) (slip opinion; U.S. Reports page not yet assigned)
Vote: 6-3 on invalidity of EO 14160; 5-4 on the Fourteenth Amendment ground · Opinion: Chief Justice John Roberts
Children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully present or lawfully but temporarily present are born 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Citizenship Clause. Executive Order 14160 is invalid. Roberts's opinion treated 'jurisdiction' as satisfied by amenability to U.S. law, reaffirmed Wong Kim Ark as declaratory of the common-law rule inherited from Calvin's Case, and grounded the Clause in the repudiation of Dred Scott.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
Vote: 6-2 (Justice McKenna took no part) · Opinion: Justice Horace Gray
A child born in the United States to parents of Chinese descent who, at the time of his birth, were subjects of the Emperor of China but had a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, were carrying on business here, and were not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity of the Chinese government, becomes at birth a citizen of the United States under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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