Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

The executive order would ban citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign workers on visas that often lead ...

The court in 1898 ruled that the protections and guarantees afforded by the 14th Amendment belong to citizens and noncitizens alike, “so long as they are permitted by the United States to ...

President Trump and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown would bypass the Fourteenth Amendment and the constitutional principle ...

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

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

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 ...

A federal judge in Boston has blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump that would end birthright citizenship ...

In the United States, as in Europe, the advent of national citizenship (as opposed to local citizenship) has mirrored and ...

Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and ...

Wong Kim Ark’s victory in the Supreme Court in 1898 affirmed the constitutional guarantee of automatic citizenship for nearly all children born in the United States.Credit...National Archives ...

States and advocacy groups for immigrants have filed at least eight lawsuits around the country challenging President Donald ...