The US has historically given automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country, but this principle is not the norm ...

When President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship, right-wing media figures immediately began ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

US District Judge Leo Sorokin granted the request by attorneys generals from Massachusetts and 17 other states.

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

A federal judge in Boston has blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump that would end birthright citizenship ...

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the definition of birthright citizenship. Do other countries grant ...

States and advocacy groups for immigrants have filed at least eight lawsuits around the country challenging President Donald Trump's executive order.

Immigrants have made America great. Some have come to improve their own prospects in life. More have come to create opportunity for their children. And notwithstanding the discrimination they’ve often ...

A second United States federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order which aims to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. “Today, virtually ...

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 ...