Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act of 2025

The Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act of 2025 would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to narrow birthright citizenship by creating explicit circumstances under which a child born in the United States would not be considered subject to U.S. jurisdiction at birth. Specifically, it would treat as non-subject to U.S. jurisdiction those children born in the United States to alien parents who are unlawfully present, who are in the U.S. for diplomatic purposes, or who are engaged in a hostile occupation or operation in the United States. The bill also states Congress’s view that birthright citizenship is rooted in jus soli (right of the soil) but limited, and it codifies a set of exceptions to this right, including for diplomats, invaders, spies, saboteurs, terrorists, and other hostile actors, as well as children of illegal aliens. In short, it would formalize narrow exclusions to automatic citizenship at birth and clarify which categories of foreign parents would not produce birthright citizenship for their children.