The Trump administration is pushing for the the U.S. Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright citizenship even ...

In emergency applications filed at the high court on Thursday, the administration asked the justices to narrow court orders ...

How many immigrants may have their citizenship stripped ... The U.S. is among at least 33 countries where birthright citizenship applies; most are in the Americas, with Canada and Mexico among ...

The attorney said he didn’t have the authority to immediately ... The U.S. is among about 30 countries where birthright citizenship — the principle of jus soli or “right of the soil ...

A month into his second term, President Donald Trump has enacted sweeping measures aimed at radically reshaping the federal immigration system and reversing decades of legal protections.

Birthright citizenship, which Trump discussed ... from political persecution in their home countries. “It is not surprising to see they have such an agreement,” Howell said, referring to ...

As part of its sovereign powers, each country will have different pathways to citizenship—mostly either by blood (jus sanguinis) or by way of place of birth (jus soli). Some can acquire citizenship by ...

Children born to tourists, students from other countries ... “birthright citizenship” was almost completely absent from public discussion until roughly 1980. The term may very well have ...