Civil rights organizations are probably already prepping the lawsuit that they will file in the event that Donald Trump issues an executive order restricting birthright citizenship. Their argument ...

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 ...

Languages: English. Birthright citizenship hasn't changed much over the years with births to foreign-born mothers in the United States remaining between 20 and 25 percent for over two decades ...

20, 2025—the first day of his second term as President—that would make birthright citizenship conditional on the legal status of one’s parents, targeting many of the hundreds of thousands of ...

Washington — President-elect Donald Trump says he'll end birthright citizenship, after years of criticizing the constitutional right. Trump on Monday issued executive action to attempt to deny ...

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 ...

During his 2024 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump stated he wanted to end birthright citizenship and on Inauguration Day he signed an executive order to do just that. But can he?

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.” ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined, rooted in the same constitutional principles and shaped by racial and ...

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 ...

By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington Thirty years ago, Congress considered a bill much like President Trump’s recent executive order on birthright citizenship. It sought to deny automatic ...

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 illegal aliens ...