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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Babies born to immigrants without full legal status in the 28 states where there was no challenge to the executive order could be deprived of U.S. citizenship, raising concerns that a month from ...

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 ...

Donald Trump: “No state in the country verifies United States citizenship as a condition for voting in federal elections.” Here’s why: One of President Donald Trump’s many recent ...