birthright citizenship
noun
the practice of automatically granting citizenship to a child born in a particular country, regardless of the citizenship status of the parent or parents: an end to birthright citizenship.
the state of having such citizenship: to grant birthright citizenship to the child of new immigrants.
Words nearby birthright citizenship
birthmark,
birthnight,
birthplace,
birthrate,
birthright,
birthright citizenship,
birthroot,
birthstone,
birthstool,
birthweight,
birthwort
Example sentences from the Web for birthright citizenship
Waslin calls the birthright-citizenship movement “a distraction that moves us from fixing a broken immigration system.”