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

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

When President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship, right-wing media figures immediately began ...

A federal judge in Boston has blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump that would end birthright citizenship ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

States and advocacy groups for immigrants have filed at least eight lawsuits around the country challenging President Donald ...

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

Two Venezuelan asylum seekers, who joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration, discuss their fears and hopes in ...

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin is the fourth federal judge to block President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.