More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Brad Jones, a professor of political science at the University of California Davis, told Newsweek. Birthright citizenship has ...

Within hours of his inauguration, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to restrict citizenship by ...

The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s ...

Here’s what to know about Trump’s proposal to add new restrictions in the U.S.—and how that compares to other countries.

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.” As ...

In fact, the Civil Rights Act remained valid law for another 70 years ... Even modern proponents of "universal birthright ...

The Trump administration’s campaign to abolish birthright citizenship is not going well. Less than 72 hours after Trump ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined ...

The Department of Justice is embracing a nineteenth-century case that denied citizenship to Native Americans to try to ...