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

Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Donald Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship -- the idea that all ...

Despite what many pundits and even lower court judges are saying, this is not a slam dunk for the president's opponents.

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that would end ...

No matter how many deportations the government orders or how many walls it builds, migrants will still be inexorably drawn to ...

Now, the precedent set in the 1898 Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark is being contested by the nation’s highest office. Within hours of his return to the Oval Office, Trump signed ...

And in contrast to other areas of policy and individual rights, the justices have not signaled any desire to revisit United States v. Wong Kim Ark. It states: “All persons born or naturalized in ...

Thirty years later in 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that children born in the United States to immigrant parents were entitled to U.S. citizenship.