What Does Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Mean for Immigrants?
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed African American slaves; its birthright citizenship clause has since been interpreted to include all U.S.-born children, regardless of parental immigration status.
Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship? What To Know After Judge Blocks Executive Order
A federal judge Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order outlawing birthright citizenship —the policy automatically giving citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.—and declared it “blatantly unconstitutional,” as legal experts widely believe the president does not have the power to change the policy on his own.
Here’s what to know about Trump’s proposal to add new restrictions in the U.S.—and how that compares to other countries.
When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...
Johnson previously said at a Senate hearing that the U.S. is in the "minority" of countries that grant birthright citizenship ...
Following Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, several Republicans ...
A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...
We don’t know yet how far Trump will go.
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