The Trump administration is developing a powerful data tool it claims will let states identify noncitizens registered to vote ...

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

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.

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 ...

Fight over Trump's order to deny birthright citizenship heads toward Supreme Court, with 14th Amendment protections at stake ...

Its first sentence sums up the citizenship right guaranteed at birth: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

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 ...

This piece was updated 01/21/2025. The American Civil Liberties Union and immigrants rights advocates sued the Trump administration on its first day in office after President Trump signed an executive ...

Sandford by giving U.S. citizenship to the 4.5 million Black people then living in the United States. Read: Birthright citizenship wasn’t born in America ...

A court case soon tested whether the amendment also afforded birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to immigrant parents. In United States v.