President Donald Trump’s first day back in the White House, he issued Executive Order 14160 “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” The directive attempted to nullify birthright citizenship,

The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" is key to the Supreme Court's forthcoming decision, and if the court follows the original intent of the 14th Amendment's nativistic Republican drafters, it will rule that the children of unnaturalized, illegal immigrants are not ipso facto citizens of the United States by virtue of their birth here.

The History Behind the Birthright Citizenship Battle. The 14th Amendment, which declared that African-Americans were citizens, turned 150 earlier this month.

Since 1868, birthright citizenship has been central to our understanding of who is legally an American. Take it away, and that understanding gets murky. All eight of my great grandparents were ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order denying what's called birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents here without legal status. More ...