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

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

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.

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

Thirty-two individuals from 17 countries became new United States citizens during the annual Naturalization Ceremony in ...

Let's begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of ...

In U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether a man born in the United States to parents who were Chinese Nationals was a citizen at birth under the 14th Amendment.

The judges seemed dubious about the executive order's constitutionality, but wondered whether the plaintiffs even have ...

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 ...

Birthright citizenship, or jus soli, a legal term that means “right of the soil,” is the right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, and upheld by the Supreme Court, that says anyone born on U.S ...