President Trump and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown would bypass the Fourteenth Amendment and the constitutional principle ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to curtail automatic birthright citizenship as part of his hardline immigration ...

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

States and advocacy groups for immigrants have filed at least eight lawsuits around the country challenging President Donald ...

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that would end ...

A Russian citizen will be returned within days from the United States as part of an exchange deal with the U.S.

US District Judge Leo Sorokin granted the request by attorneys generals from Massachusetts and 17 other states.

Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and ...

The executive order would ban citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign workers on visas that often lead to permanent residency. By Miriam Jordan Shraavya and Sumukh ...

Many Indian families rely on birthright citizenship for their U.S.-born children to gain legal standing and, eventually, help ...

A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...

Wong Kim Ark’s victory in the Supreme Court in 1898 affirmed the constitutional guarantee of automatic citizenship for nearly all children born in the United States.Credit...National Archives ...