"For nearly 160 years, the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution has established the principle that anyone born in the country is a US citizen, with exceptions for children born to diplomats and foreign military forces."

I was actually unaware of this. That does seem to be a wedge to maybe support the issue. I'm not arguing one way or another for or against, just an interesting opening I had not seen before.

The precursor to this case is Trump v. CASA[0], which arose from injunctions blocking the executive order banning birthright citizenship. The case made it to the supreme court on the emergency docket. The court did not address the merits of the case (i.e. is the ban on birthright citizenship constitutional), rather they heard an argument against universal injunctions and the authority of a judge to block executive order. The court judged against universal injunctions. Basically the EO stands.

Subsequently, the plaintiffs forced a certified class and sought a class-wide injunction. This case is called Trump v. Barbara. SCOTUS has agreed to hear the case on the question of the constitutionality of a ban on birthright citizenship.

[0] https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/trump-v-casa-inc...

EDIT: The Trump v. CASA opinion handed a win to the executive to issues orders without universal injunctions blocking the order immediately. My hot take is that this was part of the original strategy. Not sure how the court will land on the current question at hand.

This is madness.

We know the current supreme court will end this.

But the big question is how will this be enforced ?

What happens if the parents became citizens after their children were born. Will the children be deemed non-US ?

Also I know many people who's children were born in the US but parents were from Ireland and not US citizens. Either on a tourist visa or work visa or undocumented. Some kids have need here for over 50 years.

Will this only be enforced if the child has the "wrong" skin color ? That is what I expect.

After the first world war Austria-Hungary and Serbia ceased to exist and, along with parts of Russia, became parts of the new countries of Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia along with an enlarged Romania and a number of other smaller countries.

The result of this is that many people became stateless or de facto citizens of a country where they were in the minority. The Minority Treaties attempted to ensure these citizens maintained rights in countries of the League of Nations, but this was ill-enforced at best.

During the years leading up to World War II, numerous of these new countries, plus France and Germany, began to de-naturalize people of minority (for that country) descent including Germans, Poles, Balkans, Russian, Spaniards and of course Jews. They began to revoke citizenship of both naturalized and native-born people, and attempted to deport them to various places even though many had never lived there and those countries did not want them.

Mmm I'm sensing the potential for a new product.

Imagine a company that partners with ICE so that we can easily tell whether a suspect is legal based on a visible wearable on the arm. That way we can preserve privacy to the max while still minimally confirming a suspect's legal status. And scanning and tracking can be completely unobtrusive, built into different building barriers that will light up when an illegal person attempts to cross. You won't be able to go into a supermarket.

This product may have international appeal. Can anyone stop this future?