At a time when Indian were not eligible for a US citizenship, Bhicaji Balsara, a textile merchant from Bombay (now Mumbai), fought and won a lengthy legal battle against racist citizenship laws, and ...

A judge appointed by President Donald Trump will preside over a lawsuit challenging his order ending birthright citizenship.

The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied to only “free white persons,” but the 14th Amendment that ended slavery in the country also established citizenship for freed Black Americans, as well as “all ...

Section 2169, Revised Statutes, provides that the provisions of the Naturalization Act "shall apply to aliens ... original framers of the statute in 1790. But in this country, during the last ...