The nation's highest court will consider legal challenge challenging citizenship by birth.
The US Supreme Court has decided to review a pivotal case that questions a historic guarantee: automatic citizenship for those born in the United States.
On the inaugural day in office this winter, the President signed an order aiming to end the policy, but the order was struck down by federal courts after lawsuits were brought forward.
The Supreme Court's eventual ruling will ultimately affirm citizenship rights for the infants of migrants who are in the US without authorization or on non-immigrant visas, or it will overturn them entirely.
Next, the court will set a time to hear the case between the federal government and the suing parties, which involve foreign-born parents and their newborns.
A Constitutional Cornerstone
For over a century and a half, the 14th Amendment has codified the rule that anyone born in the country is a American citizen, with specific conditions for children born to embassy personnel and personnel of foreign military forces.
"Anyone born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."
The disputed presidential order sought to refuse citizenship to the offspring of people who are whether in the US without legal status or are in the country on temporary visas.
The United States belongs to a group of about three dozen nations – largely in the North and South America – that award instant citizenship to anyone born in their territory.
