India, July 1 -- The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that all persons born in the United States have the right to American citizenship.
By a 6-3 majority decision, authored by him, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that children born "to parents unlawfully or temporarily present" in the country are "citizens at birth" under the 14th amendment.
The 14th Amendment was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution in 1868 to ensure that formerly enslaved Black people would not have their citizenship questioned on the basis of their race. For more than 150 years U.S. citizenship had been granted to every child born in the country.
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