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 ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end universal birthright citizenship and limit it at ...

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

The principle was upheld by the 1898 Supreme Court case United States vs Wong Kim Ark, which affirmed that children born in the US are citizens, regardless of their parents' immigration status.

Citing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which denied citizenship to Chinese immigrants, they told him he was not, in fact, a citizen of the United States. Today, the story of Wong Kim Ark, whose epic ...

No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation” in the past 125 years, the judge stated.

The same principle holds true for the children of non-immigrants residing in the United States -- a reality made ... and often misinterpreted, Wong Kim Ark case involving a child born in San ...

That the 14th Amendment granted birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants was confirmed by the Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 30 years after the amendment’s ratification.

Native Americans born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens, and ICE cannot detain or deport them for immigration violations. Since ...

President Donald Trump’s campaign to end birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants faces a huge legal obstacle: the Supreme Court’s 126-year-old ruling, in a case from ...