President Trump said birthright citizenship was created for children of former slaves but is no longer appropriate with ...

The United States and Canada are the only two "developed" countries, as defined by the International Monetary Fund, that still have unrestricted birthright citizenship laws. That said, birthright ...

President Donald Trump has said that birthright citizenship was primarily intended for the children of slaves and not for the whole world to "come in and pile" into the U.S.. On the very first day ...

One loophole in President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship could permit Chinese nationals, along with other non-citizens, to continue obtaining U.S. citizenship for their ...

Over the years, the right to citizenship has been won by various oppressed or marginalized groups after hard-fought legal ...

Around three dozen other countries offer automatic citizenship to children born within their borders, regardless of their ...

President Donald Trump launched his sweeping immigration crackdown on Monday which included an order reinterpreting ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will issue an order intended to end birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children whose ...

International law grants them immunity from ... federal law—they had never benefitted (or suffered) under the rule of birthright citizenship. Once the federal government reduced tribal ...

The story so far: On January 23, U.S. District judge John Coughenour in Seattle blocked President Trump’s executive order attempting to curb ‘birthright citizenship’. Birthright citizenship ...