Let's begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized ...

Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order ...

Donald Trump posted on Saturday that he is giving “serious consideration” to revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship. The ...

Attacking birthright citizenship is like blaming the roof for the rain—it’s not the Constitution that’s failed us, it’s the politicians who refuse to fix the leaks.

Amid the uncertainty and potential changes in the naturalization process to be a U.S. citizen, here are five things to know.

In a memo last month listing its law enforcement priorities, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice prioritized stripping citizenship from naturalized citizens who pose threats to the U.S., in ...

Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in ...

The 14th amendment to the Constitution states that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and ...

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 ...

They arrived in the United States on tourist visas, and then their family applied for asylum. Dzhokhar became a U.S. citizen on Sept. 11, 2012, while Tamerlan had a green card and had applied for ...