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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship | Salt Lake City News
The Supreme Court just struck down Trump’s controversial executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, ruling 6-3 that the policy violates the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment — a principle upheld since 1868. The court reaffirmed that anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen, with rare exceptions like foreign diplomats. Trump’s team argued birthright citizenship encouraged illegal immigration and “birth tourism,” but the justices rejected that claim. This decision comes alongside other recent rulings expanding border enforcement and ending protections for hundreds of…
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