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What Trump's order means for birthright citizenship

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Here & Now Newsroom

January 23, 2025

In this Sept. 16, 2015 photo, in Sullivan City, Texas, a woman who is in the country illegally plays with her 2-year-old daughter who was born in the in the United States. (Eric Gay/AP)

President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship is an attempt to change the longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment. It's already facing major legal challenges.

Here & Now's Scott Tong looks at what could with Martha Jones, a historian of citizenship at Johns Hopkins University. She’s the author of "Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America."

This segment aired on January 23, 2025.

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