Among the hundreds of executive orders (EOs) signed on Jan. 20 by United States President Donald Trump, the EO which unduly ...

This week, the Trump administration doubled down in its fight against birthright citizenship. The usual alliance of pundits, professors and press lined up to declare any challenge to birthright ...

Birthright citizenship or the principle that anyone born on U.S. soil becomes an American citizen, has long been a central ...

The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

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 ...

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

Every year, the first baby born on American soil, on Guam and in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, is celebrated. This year, however, is quite different for the CNMI when a 30-year ...

The fear of deportation looms large for Pascal “Shakoure” Charpentier. After years of legal battles and advocacy, he remains ...

Since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, the United States has recognized birthright citizenship; that is, if a ...

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Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship.   That order prohibits federal agencies from issuing or accepting citizenship ...

Second, well into the 20th century, white Europeans born on U.S. soil -- whose great-grandparents may have come on the ...