For millions of permanent residents hoping to become U.S. citizens, the journey could soon get harder, as federal officials ...

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment states, simply: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled that President Trump's administration cannot withhold citizenship from children ...

Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is," Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a ...

To win, Yoo said, Trump needs the Supreme Court to overturn an 1898 decision that seems to uphold the right to citizenship for those born in the United States. “I think the administration will ...

It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...

Thirty years later, the Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the clause means just what it says: Anyone born in America is a citizen of America.

Anyone born in the United States is considered a citizen at birth, which derives from the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment that was added to the U.S. Constitution in 1868.

The Trump administration argues in the order that the 14th Amendment "has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not 'subject to the ...