The nation's highest court will consider legal challenge challenging citizenship by birth.
The top court has agreed to take on a significant case that challenges a century-old guarantee: automatic citizenship for individuals born on American soil.
On his first day in office this January, the administration signed an order aiming to terminate birthright citizenship, but the move was halted by the judiciary after legal challenges were initiated.
The Supreme Court's ultimate judgment will either affirm citizenship rights for the infants of migrants who are in the US illegally or on temporary visas, or it will nullify the provision entirely.
Next, the justices will set a time to hear arguments between the administration and claimants, which involve immigrant parents and their newborns.
The 14th Amendment
For nearly 160 years, the 14th Amendment has codified the doctrine that all individuals born in the nation is a US citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to diplomats and personnel of foreign military forces.
"Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."
The disputed directive sought to refuse citizenship to the children of people who are either in the US without legal status or are in the country on short-term status.
The United States is among about a minority of states – largely in the Americas – that award instant citizenship to anyone born on their soil.
