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The bill trades clearer, stricter rules for immigration admissions and birthright citizenship enforcement (and a medical-treatment exception) for the risk of removing automatic citizenship from many U.S.-born children, restricting pregnant noncitizen travel, increasing health and economic harms for affected families, and triggering widespread litigation and administrative burdens.
Federal immigration agencies and applicants: the bill creates a single, clearer rule about who qualifies as 'subject to the jurisdiction' for births and which applications are governed by the new standard, reducing ambiguity for implementation at ports of entry and consular offices.
People already born in the United States before enactment: the bill preserves existing citizenship status so current citizens do not lose citizenship retroactively.
U.S. immigration and consular authorities: gives clearer grounds to deny nonimmigrant admission to pregnant applicants not married to U.S. citizens, simplifying some enforcement and admission decisions.
Children born in the U.S. after enactment to parents who do not meet the specified immigration statuses: would lose automatic birthright citizenship and face uncertain or noncitizen status, risking removal, loss of benefits, and lifetime legal insecurity.
The entire country: the change to birthright citizenship is likely to prompt extensive constitutional litigation over the 14th Amendment, producing nationwide legal uncertainty and high court costs for years.
Families, applicants, federal adjudicators, and courts: the bill will increase administrative burdens, require verification of new statuses (including marital status and pregnancy), and produce processing delays, higher costs, and inconsistent outcomes across ports of entry and agencies.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Narrows birthright citizenship by tying it to parental legal status and bars unmarried pregnant nonimmigrants from admission (medical childbirth care excepted).
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify the classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth and to provide for the inadmissibility of pregnant aliens who are not married to citizens of the United States seeking admission as nonimmigrants, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 30, 2026 by Andy Ogles · Last progress June 30, 2026
Defines who counts as "subject to the jurisdiction" for birthright citizenship by tying that status to parents’ legal status, so children born in the United States on or after enactment are U.S. citizens only if at least one parent is a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident residing in the U.S., or a noncitizen on active duty in U.S. armed forces. It also creates a new inadmissibility rule barring nonimmigrant applicants who are pregnant and not married to a U.S. citizen, with an exception for those seeking legitimate childbirth-related medical care. The bill applies only to births and inbound admission applications dated on or after the date of enactment, preserves citizenship for people born before enactment, and includes severability language to keep unaffected provisions in force if parts are struck down by courts.