The Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act of 2025 would change federal law to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents fall into specific categories. The bill would exclude from birthright citizenship children born to parents who are unlawfully present in the country, present for diplomatic purposes, or engaged in hostile military operations or occupation. This legislation targets the interpretation of the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause, which currently grants citizenship to nearly all people born on U.S. soil, and attempts to codify existing exceptions for children of foreign diplomats and enemy combatants while creating a new category for children of undocumented immigrants. The bill affects any child born to unauthorized immigrants or hostile foreign actors, fundamentally altering a longstanding immigration principle. No specific funding or timeline is included in the legislation.
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