More on Birthright Citizenship and Undocumented Immigrants
(NA) The incoming Trump administration plans to deprive children of undocumented immigrants of birthright citizenship. As I explained in a recent article in Just Security, this would be a blatant violation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone “born … in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” There is no exception for children of illegal migrants. Legal scholars Amanda Frost (Univ. of Virginia) and Paul Gowder (Northwestern), have recently […]