HI HCR156

Urges the United States Congress to uphold the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to all persons born in the United States.

References the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause (Section 1, Clause 1), ratified in 1868, which was enacted in response to the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision that had denied citizenship to people of African American descent.

Notes that the citizenship clause guarantees citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States regardless of their parents' nationality, reflecting America's identity as a nation of immigrants.

Opposes efforts to eliminate automatic citizenship for children of unlawful immigrants as a method of curbing illegal immigration, citing Supreme Court precedent affirming birthright citizenship.

Directs certified copies of the resolution be transmitted to the U.S. Senate Majority Leader, House Speaker, and Hawaii's congressional delegation.