Fox News By Ashley Oliver 10/24/2025
Tennessee and Iowa AGs lead two dozen states in arguing to SCOTUS that the Constitution does not give automatic citizenship to babies of illegal immigrantsNearly all Republican attorneys general asked the Supreme Court on Friday to side with President Donald Trump in his fight to curtail birthright citizenship, offering a wide show of support for one of the president’s most controversial agenda items.
The 24 states, led by Iowa’s Brenna Bird and Tennessee’s Jonathan Skrmetti, argued in an amicus brief that the 14th Amendment, which addresses birthright citizenship, was not designed to give automatic citizenship to babies born to mothers living in the country illegally or temporarily visiting.
The state attorneys wrote that they have a unique interest in seeing birthright citizenship limited because it incentivizes illegal immigration, which they said has negatively affected their states.
"Recent years have seen an influx of illegal aliens — over 9 million — overwhelming our nation’s infrastructure and its capacity to assimilate," they wrote, adding that their states therefore face "significant economic, health, and public-safety issues from policies holding out a ‘powerful incentive for illegal migration,’ … beyond what the Citizenship Clause requires."
The states are rallying behind Trump with the Supreme Court expected to decide in the coming weeks whether it will take up the president's petition that argues that the high court should reinterpret the 150-year-old amendment to do away with automatic citizenship.
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