The battle over birthright citizenship is just getting started. Challengers to President Trump’s executive order view ...

Did Trump end birthright citizenship? Here's what Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions means for immigrant parents.

Effective immediately, the Trump administration can begin planning for how it would implement an end to birthright ...

The president and his supporters, and a few academics, also argue that in 1866 there was no such category as an “undocumented ...

In a June 27 ruling, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially halt nationwide injunctions ...

Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers ...

Tong, a Chinese-American born in Hartford to immigrant parents, calls the birthright issue personal. There is a uniquely Chinese aspect to the history of birthright citizenship, as established by ...

Outside the Americas, however, nearly no countries do. Germany is an odd exception. On Jan. 1, 2000, German policy switched from a parent’s citizenship policy to conditional birthright citizenship.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown was back in a Seattle courtroom Wednesday on birthright citizenship. Arguments were heard before a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. At ...

The U.S. is among at least 33 countries where birthright citizenship applies; most are in the Americas, with Canada and Mexico among them.

The Justice Department on Wednesday pressed a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s ruling that blocked nationwide President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.

Perhaps the most pointed question came after a lengthy back-and-forth over what the writers of the 14th Amendment meant when they enshrined birthright citizenship into the U.S. Constitution.