The president’s insistence that the U.S. is the “only country in the world” to provide birthright citizenship is flatly wrong. Most countries in the Western Hemisphere do so. More to the point: No ...

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 new presidential directive eliminating birthright citizenship if sustained will affect immigrants and short-term visa holders. Even if the Trump administration is unable to completely ban ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined, rooted in the same constitutional principles and shaped by racial and ...

That was the verdict of the judge — and he’ll be the first of many — on President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate birthright citizenship, the long-standing practice of conferring U.S ...

While nearly two dozen states are suing to stop President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, some legal experts, such as Hans ...

By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington Thirty years ago, Congress considered a bill much like President Trump’s recent executive order on birthright citizenship. It sought to deny automatic ...

Putting teeth into President Donald Trump's Day One executive order ending birthright citizenship to children born to immigrants who are in the U.S. without legal status could take some doing in ...

Putting teeth into President Donald Trump's Day One executive order ending birthright citizenship to children born to immigrants who are in the U.S. without legal status could take some doing in Texas ...