This article was updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m. Shortly after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 for a second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship – the ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end universal birthright citizenship and limit it at ...

The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in the wake of the Civil War, guarantees U.S. citizenship to all those “born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” ...

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

Birthright citizenship, a practice that President Donald Trump is seeking to end, sets the United States apart from much of the world. But the U.S. is not alone in creating such a policy — and ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Shear Reporting from Washington President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declares that babies born to many temporary residents of the United States — not just those in the ...

“The Constitution could not be more clear: citizenship of children born in the United States does not depend on the citizenship of their parents,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said in a ...

Trump signed his order to deny citizenship to children whose mothers were unlawfully present in the United States when they were born and the father wasn't a citizen or legal permanent resident ...