The Trump administration is developing a powerful data tool it claims will let states identify noncitizens registered to vote ...

For millions of permanent residents hoping to become U.S. citizens, the journey could soon get harder, as federal officials ...

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment states, simply: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

Thirty years later, the Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the clause means just what it says: Anyone born in America is a citizen of America.

Its first sentence sums up the citizenship right guaranteed at birth: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...

Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is," Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a ...

The Trump administration argues in the order that the 14th Amendment "has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not 'subject to the ...

Sandford by giving U.S. citizenship to the 4.5 million Black people then living in the United States. Read: Birthright citizenship wasn’t born in America ...

Babies born to immigrants without full legal status in the 28 states where there was no challenge to the executive order could be deprived of U.S. citizenship, raising concerns that a month from ...

The United States deported 387,790 people in the 2009 fiscal year, but to hear Shyconia Burden of Citizenship and Immigration Services describe it, you would think we’re desperate for new recruits.