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What's at risk if SCOTUS sides with Trump in birthright citizenship case
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday over President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship in a case that could decide who gets to be an American.
Key facts
- Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project that he thinks the Supreme Court is likely to rule against the president
- It's the irony of it all," Abraham Paulos, deputy director of the Black Alliance for Immigration
- What they're saying: " The Supreme Court has the opportunity to review the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause and restore the meaning of citizenship in the United States to its original public
- The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday over President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship in a case that could decide who gets to be an American
Summary
A ruling in Trump's favor could reshape America's racial makeup and create a caste system that leaves millions without rights. Threat level: Trump's order — which limits citizenship to children born in the U.S. with at least one parent legally in the country — would bar entire swaths of children from work authorization, certain jobs, Social Security, passports, SNAP, Medicaid, and voting. According to a 2025 report by UCLA's Latino Policy and Politics Institute, the order disproportionately affects immigrants of color. Some children could end up stateless, should their parents' home nation(s) refuse to grant them citizenship after a U.S. birth.