Birthright Citizenship & President Trump's Executive Order To End It

Birthright Citizenship, which is included in the 14th Amendment of United States Constitution, grants citizenship to children born on US soil regardless of their parents' status i.e. it grants US citizenship to everyone born in the US. This Amendment was made after the end of US Civil War (1861-1865) with an aim to provide equal civil and legal rights to Black people.

The Supreme Court cemented this interpretation 127 years ago, in the landmark case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, wherein Wong Kim Ark was born in the United States and thus, the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 automatically made him a US citizen. It was held that children born in the US to non-citizen parents are entitled to US citizenship and this principle has remained an undisturbed constitutional bedrock for over a century.