Trump v. Barbara · ¶284

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration adopted the view that the Citizenship Clause applied to the children of temporary visitors. See Brief for Citizenship Law Scholars as Amici Curiae 10–18; 1 House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 76th Cong., 1st Sess., 7 (Comm. Print 1939). In 1995, some 127 years after the Citizenship Clause was enacted, President Clinton’s Office of Legal Counsel endorsed the same view. 19 Op. OLC. 340. It explained that the right to American citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and temporary visitors “is fundamental to our liberty as we understand it.” Id., at 349.

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