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What Is Birthright Citizenship? | Amy Swearer

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Do children born in the U.S. automatically gain citizenship? Many claim the 14th Amendment of the Constitution guarantees it. Amy Swearer, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, tackles this constitutional debate head-on. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7

Does the Constitution grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States?

0:37.4

Even the children of people who've entered

0:39.1

the country illegally, or the children of foreign tourists who owe our country no allegiance? That's the

0:45.3

question underlying the controversial issue of birthright citizenship. Many people today take it for

0:50.5

granted that the answer is yes. If you're born on American soil, you're an American

0:54.9

citizen, period. End of issue. But is that what the Constitution says? Let's first look at the text

1:02.8

of that document, specifically the 14th Amendment. It reads, all persons born or naturalized in the

1:09.3

United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof

1:12.1

are citizens of the United States. Case closed, right? Not so fast. The key phrase here is

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