Trump Considers New Order After SCOTUS ‘Birthright’ Ruling

directed federal agencies to deny automatic U. S. citizenship to certain children born in the United States based on their parents’ immigration status.

citizen nor a lawful permanent resident

Under the order, citizenship would have been denied to children born to mothers who were in the United States unlawfully if the father was neither a U. S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident.

It also applied to children born to mothers who were legally present on a temporary basis,