Washington, June 30 -- The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to restrict birthright citizenship, reaffirming that children born on American soil were Americans as defined by the Constitution regardless of their parents' immigration status.
In a major setback for the Trump administration's immigration agenda, the court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction.
Writing for the five-justice majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said citizenship has long been understood as a fundamental constitutional right, reports Axios.
"Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights- to freely participate in...