Published August 12, 2026 at 5:15 PM ET · Updated August 12, 2026 at 7:36 PM ET
Trump allies launch push to curb birthright tourism
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Children born to visiting foreign nationals are citizens at birth. Wong Kim Ark held a child born on U.S. soil to non-citizen parents domiciled here is a citizen. Barbara extended that to children of parents lawfully but only temporarily present, since subject to jurisdiction means amenability to U.S. law. Any push to curb birthright tourism collides with Barbara directly.
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.
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.
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