President Trump's 2025 executive order challenges the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship, sparking legal battles and controversy. While aiming to restrict citizenship for certain U.S.-born children,

Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily. It is part of the hard-line immigration agenda of the president, who has called birthright citizenship a “magnet for illegal immigration.”