In a world where people are more mobile than ever, nations are struggling to recalibrate who can be a citizen. By Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome For two summers during high school, instead of ...

Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship. That order prohibits federal agencies from issuing or accepting citizenship ...

“He can’t do it!” the critics have invariably howled in decrying President Trump’s landmark Day 1 executive order upending the status quo on birthright citizenship for children born in the ...

On Day One of his second administration, President Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants and even for children of some temporary visa ...

Since the adoption of the 14 th Amendment in 1868, the United States has recognized birthright citizenship; that is, if a person is born on U.S. soil, that person is a U.S. citizen regardless of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gilbert is among many concerned parents after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 20 to revoke birthright citizenship, prompting lawsuits by Boston-based legal organizations 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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge has blocked Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born to parents who are both in the country without authorization. But when asked whether he expected ...

“The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.’” The beginning of ...