Summary in Seconds President Donald Trump has reignited the debate over birthright citizenship with an executive order seeking to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to non-citizen or non-resident parents. While courts have blocked parts of the policy, a Supreme Court ruling has allowed limited enforcement in some states. The move challenges more than a century of legal precedent under the 14th Amendment and could reshape the very definition of what it means to be an American citizen Trump’s Plan to Redefine American Citizenship President Donald Trump is pursuing a policy aimed at ending automatic birthright citizenship