President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to dust off a series of centuries-old laws and legal theories to drive his ...

Trump says he wants to end birthright citizenship. But that goal is in tension with the Constitution, and an executive order ...

Automatic citizenship for people born in the United States is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

The son of immigrants is among 23 Democratic attorneys general likely to be regularly suing the incoming Trump administration ...

According to a 2020 study from Syracuse University, roughly 250,000 children are born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrant ...

Sure, the new administration cannot wave a magic wand and end birthright citizenship by executive order. And any attempts ...

Homan expressed skepticism about whether the principle of granting citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil is protected ...

regardless of the parents' citizenship status. The Citizen Clause, under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to ...

Courts have upheld the centuries-long history of birthright citizenship. If the Trump administration tries to end it, the ...

Below is a look at U.S. birthright citizenship and Trump's legal authority to restrict it. Anyone born in the United States ...

President-elect Donald Trump has renewed his call to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. whose parents ...

The United States is not the only nation with birthright citizenship. Many countries, including Canada, have unrestricted birthright citizenship similar to the United States. The 14th Amendment to ...