Birthright citizenship: Why the ‘right of soil’ is so big in the Americas
More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them are in the Western Hemisphere. The reason is more complicated than you might think.
The conservative case for birthright citizenship
Ending birthright citizenship would not solve our nation's immigration crisis, and it would only make the problem worse.
Why America Needs Birthright Citizenship
DONALD TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER theoretically ending birthright citizenship grandly proclaims its purpose as “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” As we’ve come to expect from this administration,
Opinion
There’s a Reason Trump Is Going After Birthright Citizenship
On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end unconditional birthright citizenship. Lawsuits immediately began pouring in, and a federal judge blocked the order for now.
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Trump’s birthright citizenship order is ‘blatantly constitutional’
President Trump signed an executive order that denied “birthright citizenship” to individuals born in the United States to alien parents whose U.S. presence is illegal or temporary.
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Donald Trump Is Emphatically Correct About Birthright Citizenship
Because when it comes to birthright citizenship, the virtue signaling and armchair excoriation is not just silly -- it's dead wrong on the law. Trump's Jan. 20 executive order on birthright citizenship is legally sound and fundamentally just.
For some readers, birthright citizenship is a right. For others, it's a question.
Several readers defend birthright citizenship as a constitutional right. One questions that view and says it should be revisited.
Democrats’ Hypocrisy on Birthright Citizenship
The Supreme Court will have the final say and will almost certainly interpret the 14th Amendment in Mr. Trump's favor.
Senate Republicans introduce bill to reform birthright citizenship, following Trump’s controversial order
Following Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, several Republicans ...
18 House GOP lawmakers back Trump’s birthright citizenship order in court
A contingent of House Judiciary Committee Republicans backed President Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship, ...
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What is birthright citizenship? Can Trump get rid of it? What to know about executive order
“Denying citizenship to U.S.-born children is not only unconstitutional — it’s also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of ...
Republican state AGs back Trump birthright citizenship order in court filing: 'Taxpayers are on the hook'
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading 17 states in an amicus brief supporting the Trump administration's executive ...
South Asian North Texans wrestle with Trump’s push to limit birthright citizenship
Many in the Nepalese and Indian Americans in North Texas say they are concerned about how President Donald Trump's executive ...
House Republicans enter birthright citizenship fight
The Republican lawmakers argued that the order, which Trump issued on his first day in office, correctly interpreted the citizenship clause of the Constitution, which states that “all persons born or ...
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‘Meant for the children of slaves’: Trump disgustingly discredits birthright citizenship for immigrants’ children
Donald Trump has tried to justify ending birthright citizenship with his most deplorable justification yet. In a recent press ...
Rolling Out5d
The twin histories of birthright citizenship and slavery
At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined ...