In a world where people are more mobile than ever, nations are struggling to recalibrate who can be a citizen. By Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome For two summers during high school, instead of ...

The birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to all individuals born on United States soil. Its origins lie in one of the country’s most pivotal reckonings ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship attracted a lawsuit by 22 states, activist groups, and expectant mothers and, yesterday, an injunction by a Washington federal district judge ...

According to the Law Library of Congress, more than 30 countries across the world recognize birthright citizenship on an unrestricted basis – in which children born on their soil automatically ...

That was the verdict of the judge — and he’ll be the first of many — on President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate birthright citizenship, the long-standing practice of conferring U.S ...

It’s part of who we are. The White House executive order theoretically ending birthright citizenship grandly proclaims its purpose as “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” ...

"He can't do it!" the critics have invariably howled in decrying President Donald Trump's landmark day-one executive order upending the status quo on birthright citizenship for the children of ...