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.
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