On Thursday, a fourth federal judge blocked the executive order issued by the president on his first day in the Oval Office.

Birthright citizenship, also known as jus soli (right of the soil), has been in place in the US for more than a century, guaranteeing citizenship to everyone born within the country’s borders ...

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship for certain ...

A federal judge in Boston has blocked President Donald Trump's executive order that would end birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally.

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” ...

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

President Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship in the United States. What is it, which other countries apply the ...

The U.S. follows the principle of jus soli (the right of soil), based on geography regardless of parental citizenship, as opposed to jus sanguinis (the right of blood), which gives citizenship ...

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 ...

The story so far: On January 23, U.S. District judge John Coughenour in Seattle blocked President Trump’s executive order attempting to curb ‘birthright citizenship’. Birthright citizenship ...

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 ...