When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...

The Justice Department argued that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted by the Supreme Court and doesn’t grant ...

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

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

But how does this compare to citizenship laws around the world? Birthright citizenship, or jus soli (right of the soil), is not the norm globally. The US is one of about 30 countries - mostly in ...

“The rule of law is, according to him ... only children who did not automatically receive U.S. citizenship upon being born on U.S. soil were children of diplomats, who have allegiance to ...

America can have mass immigration or unlimited cultural diversity, but it cannot have both at the same time without inviting division and national decline.

The Democratic attorneys general and immigrant rights advocates say the question of birthright citizenship is settled law and that while ... you are born on American soil, you are an American.