In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...

For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans, Democrats, and constitutional scholars. President Donald Trump’s ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end universal birthright citizenship and limit it at ...

Since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, the United States has recognized birthright citizenship; that is, if a ...

The Justice Department Tuesday appealed to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a Maryland judge issued a nationwide ...

President Donald Trump's executive order to ban birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. Immigration must be handled ...

This article was updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m. Shortly after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 for a second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship – the ...

Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to try to eliminate birthright citizenship for those whose parents ...

His executive order goes beyond his presidential power, given the 14th Amendment. On the first day of his second term as ...

One loophole in President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship could permit Chinese nationals, along with other non-citizens, to continue obtaining U.S. citizenship for ...

For a country seemingly proud of calling itself a melting pot, a country that is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, it is ...