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On the day after his inauguration, January 20, 2025
January 20, 2025 was inauguration day, not the day after. Executive Order 14160 was also signed on January 20, 2025.
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This phrase gets the date relationship wrong. Under the 20th Amendment, the President’s and Vice President’s terms begin at midday on January 20. The National Archives states that since ratification of the 20th Amendment, presidential terms begin on January 20. The Federal Register entry for Executive Order 14160 identifies it as “Executive Order 14160 of January 20, 2025” and ends with “THE WHITE HOUSE, January 20, 2025.”
So if the order was signed on January 20, 2025, that was inauguration day itself, not “the day after his inauguration.”
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- 20th Amendment: A New Inauguration Day | National Archives Museum
“Since then, the President's and Vice President's terms begin midday on January 20.”
- Executive Order 14160 of January 20, 2025 — Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
The Federal Register identifies this as “Executive Order 14160 of January 20, 2025” and the text concludes: “THE WHITE HOUSE, January 20, 2025.”
In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth applied to all children born in the United States and granted birthright citizenship regardless of the citizenship status of the parents.
Wong Kim Ark did not hold that birthright citizenship extends to every child born in the United States. Official sources describe the case as recognizing citizenship by birth only with limited exceptions.
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This overstates Wong Kim Ark. Official government sources do not describe that case as applying to all children born in the United States without exception.
The Government Publishing Office’s official United States Reports feature for Wong Kim Ark says the Court held that anyone born within the country’s borders is a citizen “with limited exceptions.” And the Supreme Court’s 2026 opinion in Trump v. Barbara explains those exceptions: the Court in Wong Kim Ark recognized exceptions for children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, those born on foreign public ships, those born to enemies during hostile occupation, and at the time, children of members of Indian tribes.
Because Wong Kim Ark recognized exceptions, the article’s categorical statement that it applied to “all children born in the United States” is inaccurate.
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- Supreme Court Cases in the United States Reports Collection | GovInfo
GovInfo summarizes Wong Kim Ark this way: it held that anyone born within the country’s borders, “with limited exceptions,” is a U.S. citizen, regardless of their parents’ nationality or immigration status.
- Trump v. Barbara, No. 25-365 (U.S. June 30, 2026)
Justice Kavanaugh’s opinion states that Wong Kim Ark adopted a general rule of birthright citizenship with exceptions for “children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory” and “children of members of the Indian tribes.”
Executive Order 14160 was signed in 2025 by President Donald Trump to end birthright citizenship for children of parents without U.S. citizenship or permanent residency.
Executive Order 14160 was narrower than this description. It applied only in specified situations tied to the mother’s immigration status and the father’s citizenship/LPR status, not to every child of parents lacking citizenship or permanent residency.
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This sentence describes Executive Order 14160 too broadly.
The order did not categorically cover all children whose parents lacked U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residence. The official Federal Register text says it applied only when (1) the mother was unlawfully present and the father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, or (2) the mother’s presence was lawful but temporary and the father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
That means the order turned on a more specific combination of parental statuses than the article states. For example, the order itself says it should not be construed to affect “other individuals,” including children of lawful permanent residents. So the article’s blanket description is inaccurate.
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- Executive Order 14160 of January 20, 2025 — Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
The order applies only “(1) when that person's mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident ... or (2) when that person's mother's presence ... was lawful but temporary ... and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident.”
- Trump v. Barbara, No. 25-365 (U.S. June 30, 2026)
The Supreme Court syllabus summarizes the order as applying to “children born in the United States of parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present here,” not all children of parents lacking citizenship or permanent residency.