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Guaranteed Human.

The United States Supreme Court has issued one of the most consequential immigration

rulings in decades, bringing an end to a legal battle over President Donald Trump's

effort, which so many supported, to end automatic birthright citizenship for certain children that are born in the

United States of America. And if you're logical, you understand why the president was trying to do this.

Clearly, it was being abused on a level that honestly none of us, I think, can truly understand.

Now, to understand why this case mattered so much, you've got to go back to what

President Trump's very first day in office was actually all about. That is when President

Trump signed an executive order. And it declared that children born in the United States of America

will no longer automatically receive U.S. citizenship if their parents were in the

country illegally or were only here temporarily, such as on a student work or tourist visa.

Now, the administration argued that the Constitution had been interpreted incorrectly for more

than a century. The Trump administration's legal

argument centered on just a few words in the 14th Amendment, subject to the jurisdiction of the

United States. The administration argued before the Supreme Court that those words mean more than

simply being born on American soil.

And what Trump's position was is that if, look, if someone's parents are not permanently and fully subject to U.S. political jurisdiction,

because they are here unlawfully or only temporarily, then their children should not be automatically American citizens if they're born here.

Now, administration lawyers also argue that the landmark 1989 Supreme Court decision in the United States v. Wong Kim Arc had been interpreted too broadly for generations.

They maintain that the Constitution never intended birthright citizenship

to apply to everyone born in America, regardless of their parents' legal status.

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