Half of U.S. adults say people born in the United States to parents who immigrated illegally should have U.S. citizenship, ...

But birthright citizenship is ultimately an American ideal. That is, all of the Americas. Nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere grants citizenship to children born in its ...

A federal appellate court is weighing whether to allow President Trump to end the constitutional guarantee to birthright ...

The Justice Department on Wednesday pressed a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s ruling that blocked nationwide ...

Who has the right to become American? A pregnant Venezuelan doctor with TPS is suing the Trump Administration over her baby's ...

More than 150,000 newborns would be denied citizenship annually if Trump's order takes effect nationally, according to the ...

Arizona v. United States has been consistently applied for over a decade, but the current administration's methods may not ...

If Donald Trump succeeds in ending the policy, "It would be like stealing his future, the future that we came to the United ...

The Supreme Court's 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark granted citizenship to the American-born child of Chinese immigrants.

The U.S. Supreme Court, meanwhile, hasn’t ruled whether a decision from one judge can block a president’s executive order from taking effect nationwide.

A three-judge panel asked a U.S. Justice Department attorney about "the ordinary meaning" of the 14th Amendment while ...

A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court in Seattle seemed conflicted Wednesday about the constitutionality of ...