Birthright Citizenship Built America | Salt Lake City News

Salt Lake City News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 17, 2026 · 1m

Birthright citizenship, enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment, has been the invisible engine of America’s unity and global rise—turning immigrant children into instant Americans, enabling families to thrive, businesses to flourish, and soldiers to serve, all while forging a shared national identity. Unlike nations bound by ancestry-based citizenship, the U.S. system shields belonging from political manipulation, preventing race or ethnicity from dictating who counts as American. Born in direct defiance of the Dred Scott decision, this amendment didn’t just redefine citizenship—it built the…