President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is prompting lawsuits alleging he lacks the legal ground to end the right enshrined in the Constitution.

“Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship”—better known as the birthright citizenship executive order ...

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

The US follows the “jus soli” (right of the soil) principle, as opposed to the “jus sanguinis” (right of blood) principle, which confers citizenship based on whether at least one parent is a citizen.

Getty Images In the Americas, only Chile and Colombia do not grant birthright citizenship, relying instead on jus sanguinis or citizenship based on ancestry rather than place of birth. Most ...

World Population Review shares that 32 other countries offer "jus sanguinis," which grants citizenship as long as one parent is a citizen or if they meet the other requirements listed.

Most other countries confer citizenship based on whether at least one parent — jus sanguinis, or "right of blood" — is a citizen, or have a modified form of birthright citizenship that may ...