President Donald Trump incorrectly said that the US is "the only country" that automatically confers citizenship to children ...

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

Concepcion said if the federal government wishes to limit birthright citizenship to those whose parents are already U.S. citizens, that’s up to them. “The MVA takes no position on this matter ...

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

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

More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.

During his 2024 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump stated he wanted to end birthright citizenship and on ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed to overturn territorial birthright citizenship. “We’re going to have to get it changed,” he told NBC News during his first extended interview after ...

Donald Trump is back. And this time he will have a compliant Congress and a whole roster of willing cabinet ministers. The first thing Trump promises to do—after upending international trade with ...

That amendment, created to grant citizenship rights to formerly enslaved Black Americans and their descendants, confers birthright citizenship to anyone born on US soil, save the children of ...

But now he wants parents in Tulsa and other districts throughout the state to share their citizenship status when they enroll their children — a proposal that not only violates federal law but is ...