More than 120 years ago, a Supreme Court decision in favour of a Chinese-American man named Wong Kim Ark played a key role in ...

A federal judge Wednesday issued a national injunction barring Trump from denying citizenship to immigrant children ...

A federal judge Wednesday furthered a block of President Trump’s executive order preventing the children of migrants without ...

The president’s executive order seeks to end the automatic grant of citizenship to children born on U.S. soil.

A second federal judge has issued an order blocking Donald Trump's administration from implementing his plan to curtail U.S.

Born in 1873 in San Francisco's Chinatown, Wong Kim Ark became the story of birthright citizenship as we know it today.

Experts say that clarity about what it legally means to be a citizen is largely thanks to Wong, who to this day remains a ...

President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship will face its next legal hurdle this week when three ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Maryland Wednesday issued a nationwide injunction against President Donald Trump’s executive ...

At the heart of the lawsuits is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the infamous ...

Birthright citizenship in the U.S. is based on the 14th Amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on ...

More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.