Fact-check: “Children born in the United States to visiting or illegal immigrants are not entitled to be US citizens according to the law”
Verdict: False (90% confidence)
Under current binding U.S. constitutional law, this claim is false. The 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause grants citizenship to 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,' and the Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) ruled that this includes children born to non-citizen parents — including those with no legal immigration status. The only narrow exceptions recognized are children of foreign diplomats and children born to hos…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
Related fact-checks
- Donald Trump Jr accepted a gift from a Russian oligearch — True
- European Union plans 200 million Euro investment in Greenland as a response to Trump's posturing — Mostly True
- Approximately 45% of the current Canadian population is made up of immigrants and the children of immigrants — Mostly True
- Recent job numbers increased faster than had been expected and are ahead of most analysts expectations — Partly True
- Medicare for all would cost trillions a year that Americans would pay through higher income taxes — Partly True