UC Berkeley immigration experts cited in Supreme Court birthright citizenship ruling

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT cited two UC Berkeley professors, Hidetaka Hirota and James Kettner, when it struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship in June.

Hirota is an associate professor in Berkeley’s history department, where he specializes in immigration. Kettner, who was a colonial and early American history professor and a faculty member for 30 years, died in 2002.