It is widely agreed that “subject to the jurisdiction” excluded the children of diplomats, Native Americans subject and with ...

The president’s insistence that the U.S. is the “only country in the world” to provide birthright citizenship is flatly wrong. Most countries in the Western Hemisphere do so. More to the point: No ...

The president's executive orders have already drawn dozens of legal challenges, including some that could make it to the U.S.

The court in 1898 ruled that the protections and guarantees afforded by the 14th Amendment belong to citizens and noncitizens ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order attacking birthright citizenship has reinvigorated the debate surrounding the ...

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...

No matter how many deportations the government orders or how many walls it builds, migrants will still be inexorably drawn to ...

States and advocacy groups for immigrants have filed at least eight lawsuits around the country challenging President Donald ...

Just hours after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to end automatic birthright ...

Immigrants have made America great. Some have come to improve their own prospects in life. More have come to create opportunity for their children. And notwithstanding the discrimination they’ve often ...