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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship as we have known it. The court’s eventual opinion in the case, Trump v. Barbara, will almost certainly hinge on how the justices interpret the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, which says: “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.” The court will probably also respond to the first words of the president’s March 19 brief, which asserts that...

French authorities agreed to help the U.S. crack down on tax evaders. But in doing so, people who just happened to be born on American soil face massive penalties and reams of red tape. PARIS — In 1964, a happy young French couple moved to the United States. The husband had just taken a new job at IBM and his wife was expecting their first child. They spent two hectic years in this country they didn’t know, together with their little Renaud, who came into the world just a few months after they’d settled — in Poughkeepsie, New York. Then,...

It turns out the over 100 women from Turkey who flew over to America to have their babies then signed up for Medicaid So not only did their kids get birthright citizenship but then the American taxpayer had to pay for the procedure and follow up care End Birthright Citizenship