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President-elect Trump, Democratic lawmakers and the Supreme Court are on a collision course over restricting birthright citizenship, which Trump has identified as a top priority for his incoming administration.
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill say the 14th Amendment’s language, which grants all people born in the United States citizenship, is being exploited in a way the amendment’s framers never anticipated.
They believe Trump has the authority to take action to tighten the interpretation of the 14th Amendment to exclude the children of foreign tourists, students and other classes from automatically receiving citizenship if born on U.S. territory.
And they say the conservative-leaning Supreme Court could rule that classes of foreigners on U.S. soil are not necessarily subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and therefore their children, if born in this country, are not entitled to citizenship.