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The president’s stalled executive order seeks to exclude children of illegal immigrants from automatic citizenship at birth.

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order excluding children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors from automatic birthright citizenship.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion in the case, which is known as Trump v. Barbara.

“A child born on American soil and subject to American law was made an American citizen,” Roberts wrote.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Samuel Alito dissented.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in part and dissented in part.

Trump’s Executive Order 14160 focuses on the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause, which states: “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 executive order states that the amendment has never been interpreted to bestow citizenship universally on everyone born in the United States. According to the order, an individual born in the United States is not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” if that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the country and the individual’s father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of the person’s birth.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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