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 ...

President Trump risks overplaying his hand by seeking to end the longstanding principle that children born in the United ...

President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge. The constitutional right, fought for by various oppressed groups, is now being ...

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

Concepcion said if the federal government wishes to limit birthright citizenship to those whose parents are already U.S. citizens, that’s up to them. “The MVA takes no position on this matter ...

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

Seacoast letter writers decry GOP bill to rescind school mandate to provide period products; defend and deplore Trump's early actions.

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

Localities got a federal judge’s green light Tuesday to file an amicus brief in a case seeking to enjoin President Donald Trump’s executive order doing away with birthright citizenship.

That was the verdict of the judge — and he’ll be the first of many — on President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate ...

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

Here is a look at the history of birthright citizenship in the US, how it has evolved over the years, and if India ...