The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

The SAVE Act aims to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of US citizenship for voting ...

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...

Just hours after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to end automatic birthright ...

Republican lawmakers are championing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act that would require voters to show ...

The Department of Justice recently argued that birthright citizenship does not apply to Native Americans. The administration ...

A judge in New Hampshire has agreed to block enforcement while he considers a challenge from advocates, including the ACLU of Maine, who argue the order is unconstitutional.

A third federal judge indefinitely blocked President Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, dealing another stark blow to the controversial directive. U.S. District ...

As President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship faces multiple legal challenges, some tribal members are ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump announced an executive order ending birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which granted citizenship to formerly enslaved Black people ...

Ending birthright citizenship would not solve our nation's immigration crisis, and it would only make the problem worse.

The first Indian to achieve this milestone was Bhikaji Balsara, a textile merchant from Bombay (now Mumbai). In the early 1900s, US citizenship was granted only to "free white people" under the ...