By CP Staff
The Supreme Court recently rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship, ruling that children of illegal immigrants born in the United States are citizens.
In Trump v. Barbara, the high court ruled Tuesday that a Trump executive order that restricted birthright citizenship violated the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
“If Congress intended to limit American citizenship to the children of those domiciled in the United States, nothing in the succinct language of the Citizenship Clause conveyed that design,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the majority.
“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ … We keep that promise today.”
More than 30 countries have policies on birthright citizenship that effectively mirror that of the United States, with some of those nations having fairly sizable populations.
Here are the 10 most populous countries with birthright citizenship, based on population numbers taken from this website and a list of such nations found at this website.
