Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order

Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily. It is part of the hard-line immigration agenda of the president, who has called birthright citizenship a “magnet for illegal immigration.”

President Donald Trump's plan to revoke birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants remains blocked. Judges issued nationwide injunctions against Trump's executive order, arguing it's unconstitutional.

Rights are never self-enforcing and there’s no language so perfect that having it written down will inherently resolve a problem forever,” noted historian Gregory Downs, pinpointing the essence of the maelstrom surrounding birthright citizenship in the United States.

Lately, Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis has become a go-to source on questions about President Donald Trump’s frenzied efforts to reshape the federal government—the main question usually being,

Birthright citizenship is quite a rare privilege in the world—only 34 countries offer it. But what is it? Birthright citizenship refers to the granting of citizenship by the policy of Jus Soli, a French term meaning "right of soil.

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