President Donald Trump said on March 30 that the United States’ current birthright citizenship policy was created to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children, not to children born to temporary visitors.
Trump’s comments came as the Supreme Court prepares to hear Trump v. Barbara on April 1. The case is about whether his executive order 14160, which excludes the children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors from automatically gaining U.S. citizenship at birth, is constitutional. The order has been blocked in the lower courts.
