The Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to deny automatic citizenship to children of undocumented migrants born on American soil.
The president and his legal team had advanced a view that had, until recently, found little support among policymakers and legal experts all the way to the highest court in the land – a remarkable achievement by itself.
In the end, however, a majority of the nine justices were unwilling to reverse a 150-year-old court precedent and reinterpret longstanding federal law and the language of the US constitution in order to deliver a victory for Trump.
This setback will surely frustrate the president, forcing him to look for new ways to restrict the ways undocumented migrants can enter the US. If they never reach American soil, then the citizenship of their children.–BBC
