US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at abolishing the "right of soil," which automatically grants ...

Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, which could impact as many as 250,000 children each year.

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Here is what to know about birthright citizenship: The first sentence of the Fourteenth ... was one of three amendments from ...

A federal judge gently hints that Trump’s lawyer might consider a change of location and extinguishes the dung—for now.

In a world where people are more mobile than ever, nations are struggling to recalibrate who can be a citizen.

President Donald Trump issued a patently unconstitutional executive order on Monday purporting to abolish birthright ...

When the Trump administration seeks to have the injunction quashed, the litigation may eventually proceed, through the ...

Other than that, the citizenship or immigration status of a person’s parents has not been held to have any effect on this right. Trump cannot abolish birthright citizenship by himself.

Unrestricted birthright citizenship is increasingly rare, and with only a few exceptions, it persists only in countries with ...

Here’s what to know about Trump’s proposal to add new restrictions in the U.S.—and how that compares to other countries.

Strikingly, nearly all of those countries recognizing unrestricted birthright citizenship are in the ... of soil’ have since moved either to abolish or restrict its use, much like some of ...