The United States Justice Foundation has filed an amicus brief in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Trump Administration’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Our argument centers on the fact that the children of temporary residents and those who entered the country illegally are not citizens of the United States because they are not subject to its jurisdiction in the manner the 14th Amendment requires.
