New Delhi, July 2 -- Every year, roughly 255,000 children are born in the United States to parents who are either in the country without legal status or on temporary visas. From the moment of their birth, the Constitution's 14th Amendment has guaranteed them citizenship. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that it still does.

the order was constitutionally untenable.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Roberts held that children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment and are therefore citizens...