President Trump and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown would bypass the Fourteenth Amendment and the constitutional principle ...

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” ...

The new Executive Directive now creates two groups of individuals born in the US who would not be entitled to birthright citizenship automatically. First, those whose mother was unlawfully present ...

This marked the first significant legal challenge in ... to the Constitution was a landmark provision meant to ensure citizenship rights for formerly enslaved African Americans following the ...

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), who represents the southernmost tip of Florida, said the 14th Amendment — adopted in 1868 to provide citizenship rights to freed slaves and their descendants — is ...

President Trump's new executive order denies automatic citizenship to certain children born in the US. Immigrants' rights advocates ... of the child's birth. The first lawsuit challenging this ...

Ending birthright citizenship is not a new proposal for Trump, who also floated ending the longstanding right during his 2016 campaign and in his first term. The ex-president never ultimately took ...

BALTIMORE - Immigrant groups are filing a lawsuit in Maryland against President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. One of the first executive orders Mr. Trump signed ...

Donald Trump declared that unless one parent of a newborn in the US is an American citizen or a green card holder, the child will not be an American citizen. President Donald Trump signed an ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to give U.S. citizenship to enslaved Black people who had been emancipated. The first sentence ... those citizenship rights in the case of United States ...