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

about the idea of unrestricted birthright citizenship, as the map below shows. Strikingly, nearly all of those countries recognizing unrestricted birthright citizenship are in the Western ...

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

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to eliminate birthright citizenship. Take our quiz to see how much you ...

“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 ...

UVA legal expert Amanda Frost explains the president’s executive order, the constitutional amendment he seeks to overturn and ...

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 ...