Trump's birthright-citizenship executive order would have affected more than one-quarter of a million babies born in the United States each year, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University's Population Research Institute.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent sources (PBS NewsHour, Newsweek, MPI itself, Penn State PRI) corroborate the ~255,000 figure and its attribution to MPI/Penn State research. [tier=silver indep_score=0.833 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits (seed:politics_and_current_events)
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-rejects-trump-limits-on-birthright-citizenship (corroboration)
- https://www.newsweek.com/gop-split-over-birthright-citizenship-as-supreme-court-weighs-ruling-poll-11919224 (corroboration)
- https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/ending-automatic-birthright-citizenship (corroboration)
- https://www.migrationpolicy.org/journal/policy-beat/though-rare-birth-tourism-united-states-sparks-outsized-concern (corroboration)