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

The Justice Department argued that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted by the Supreme Court and doesn’t grant ...

The 14th Amendment’s provision for automatic citizenship for all people born on U.S. soil did not apply to him ... a right that has deep roots in common law. Since that 1898 ruling, that ...

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

Here's a closer look at what Trump has done to spark judicial outrage, along with an explanation of why his moves may not ...

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

But how does this compare to citizenship laws around the world? Birthright citizenship, or jus soli (right of the soil), is not the norm globally. The US is one of about 30 countries - mostly in ...

“The rule of law is, according to him ... only children who did not automatically receive U.S. citizenship upon being born on U.S. soil were children of diplomats, who have allegiance to ...

America can have mass immigration or unlimited cultural diversity, but it cannot have both at the same time without inviting division and national decline.

The Democratic attorneys general and immigrant rights advocates say the question of birthright citizenship is settled law and that while ... you are born on American soil, you are an American.