President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” aiming to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship, or jus soli (right of the soil), has ...

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

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship in the US, a nearly 160-year-old practice guaranteed by the ...

Show Full Article Citizenship is mainly affirmed through jus soli – right of the soil, and jus sanguinis – right of the blood. Countries offering citizenship through jus soli impart citizenship to ...

The vast majority of countries in the rest of the world either do not recognize the jus soli (Latin for ‘right of soil’) principle on which unrestricted birthright citizenship is based or ...

The practice is known as jus soli (Latin for 'right of the soil'). But the U.S. remains notable for its broad application of unconditional jus soli, as enshrined in the 14th Amendment. Are there ...

But this isn’t true — plenty of other countries practice the principle of unrestricted jus soli, meaning "right of soil", including the US's neighbours, Canada and Mexico. In fact, most of the ...

and “jus soli,” or right of soil — has its critics, and increasingly, countries have sought to rebalance the two. Since the 1980s, Britain and Ireland (as well as Australia and New Zealand ...