A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration cannot prevent migrants who cross the southern border from making

The ruling is a setback for President Donald Trump, a Republican who recaptured the White House promising a vast immigration crackdown.

Even if the mothers' immigration statuses were called into question and even if Trump was not married to them at the time of the children's births, all of Trump's children have an American father. Thus, Trump's executive order against birthright citizenship would not affect the statuses of his own children.

A recent Supreme Court ruling could allow President Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship to go into effect in some states. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times,

The Supreme Court 'could have simply decided that the 14th Amendment's clear mandate that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States" meant exactly what it said,