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The Trump administration’s campaign to abolish birthright citizenship is not going well. Less than 72 hours after Trump ...

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 ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

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

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

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

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

Sandford, which denied U.S. citizenship to Black people. “They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of ...

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.

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