'anchor babies'

United States

On August 20, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stayed a lower court’s order. The three-judge panel, comprised of appointees by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Trump, granted the emergency stay, pausing the earlier July 31 ruling by US District Judge Trina L Thompson. Her order had blocked the Trump administration in its efforts to end birthright citizenship for people not subject to the political jurisdiction of the United States. The case involved a man born in the US to a diplomat from Nicaragua working at the UN.

ROBERTO MONCADA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MARCO A. RUBIO, in his official capacity as U.S. Secretary of State, Defendant-Appellee.
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2025/08/20/23-55803.pd

Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1, 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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Ratified July 9, 1868 (Civil War amendment, color added)