In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

During his 2024 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump stated he wanted to end birthright citizenship and on Inauguration Day he signed an executive order to do just that. But can he?

Here’s what to know about Trump’s proposal to add new restrictions in the U.S.—and how that compares to other countries.

Washington — President-elect Donald Trump says he'll end birthright citizenship, after years of criticizing the constitutional right. Trump on Monday issued executive action to attempt to deny ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Birthright citizenship, a practice that President Donald Trump is seeking to end, sets the United States apart from much of the world. But the U.S. is not alone in creating such a policy — and ...

Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship.   That ...

President Trump is sparking a debate: should US-born individuals be automatically citizens? He signed an executive order to ...

Johnson previously said at a Senate hearing that the U.S. is in the "minority" of countries that grant birthright citizenship ...

President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship will face its next legal hurdle this week when three ...

Before the day was over, Mr Trump had signed an executive order that, if implemented, would apparently end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the constitution.