Executive Order 14160: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose
• Sec. 2. Policy
• Sec. 3. Enforcement
• Sec. 4. Definitions
• Sec. 5. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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The privilege of United States citizenship is a priceless and profound gift. The Fourteenth Amendment states: ``All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.'' That provision rightly repudiated the Supreme Court of the United States's shameful decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), which misinterpreted the Constitution as permanently excluding people of African descent from eligibility for United States citizenship solely based on their race. But the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. […]