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 ...

President Donald Trump’s stalled attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship has done little to slow the popular practice of ...

By its own terms, the 14th Amendment applies to “all persons” born in the United States, disqualifying no one by parentage.

A proposal approved by the state Board of Education exposed divisions over how far states should go to enforce President ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them are in the Western Hemisphere. The reason is more complicated than you might ...

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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined Trump's request to suspend an injunction blocking his executive order to ban ...

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

The court held that a child born of parents with a “permanent domicile and residence in the United States” was a birthright citizen. Wong Kim Ark’s parents, as persons who came in amity ...

P resident Donald Trump said that he plans to offer a “gold card” visa with a path to citizenship for $5 million, replacing a ...

President Donald Trump says the $5 million “Gold Card” could become available in as soon as two weeks. The card seeks to ...