The proposed law, which would not take effect before this year’s midterm elections, was modeled in part on President Trump’s top legislative priority in Congress.

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

René López, who obtained U.S. citizenship as a minor through his naturalized mother, spent years proving that was the case ...

The battle over birthright citizenship is a battle over its exceptions. The 14th Amendment’s first sentence proudly proclaims that “[a]ll persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the ...