NPR News: 06-30-2026 10PM EDT

Ryland Barton· Host0:00

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. On the first day of his second term, President Trump tried to bar citizenship for babies born in the US if their parents entered the country illegally or were only living here temporarily. The Supreme Court ruled against him today. But NPR's Mara Liasson says Trump succeeded in making birthright citizenship a political issue.

Mara Liasson0:21

Trump has really succeeded in pushing the Overton window, in other words, changing the parameters of the debate. Before this, birthright citizenship was outside the parameters. It was a settled matter. Now it's inside. And even though the Supreme Court reaffirmed the executive's control over immigration policy in other cases, they drew the line at birthright citizenship. And in a weird way, that's a po- that could be a political boon for him because if they had ruled for him, he, there would've been a tremendous amount of chaos to sort out which babies were citizens and which were not. And now he can just keep the message without the headaches of implementation.

Ryland Barton· Host0:55

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