1. a) What does the clause of the 14th Amendment say?
b) On what legal concept is it based?
c) How has it been used?

2. Why didn’t the Supreme Court address the status of children born to illegal immigrant parents in the Wong Kim Ark case?  (see para. 3)

3. How does Johns Hopkins University professor Martha Jones, an expert on birthright citizenship, explain the legitimacy of President Trump’s argument on birthright citizenship? (see para. 4-5)

4. By enacting an executive order on birthright citizenship, what does President Trump want the U.S. Supreme Court to do? (see para. 6)

5. Answer the following questions about birthright citizenship in countries around the world: (para. 7-9)
a) In how many of the world’s 194 countries is birthright citizenship permitted?
b) In how many of Europe’s 50 countries is birthright citizenship permitted?
c) In what years did the following countries end birthright citizenship: UK, Australia, India, France, Ireland?
d) Of the 30 countries that offer birthright citizenship, how many are in North and South America?
e) Name the two developed countries that allow birthright citizenship.
f) What do you think about the fact that people are not moving in large numbers to most of the countries that offer birthright citizenship?

6. How does birthright citizenship benefit the family members of people who come to the U.S. illegally? (see para. 12)

7. What is birth tourism?

8. a) Read the “Background” below the questions. What is the main idea of the editorial excerpted here?
b) Does Mr. Spakovsky make a persuasive argument? Explain your answer.