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 a moral commitment to the idea that the American Dream is not defined by bloodlines or borders, but ...

The simple answer is no. It's a position that has been backed up by several federal district courts.

The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is ...

The judges seemed dubious about the executive order's constitutionality, but wondered whether the plaintiffs even have ...

After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration ...

Each year, tens of thousands of pregnant women travel to the United States just to give birth. It’s what’s called Birth ...

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.

In an 1898 ruling about the citizenship of a man born in the United States to Chinese parents, the Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment, “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the ...