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 ...

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 executive order would ban citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign workers on visas that often lead ...

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 ...

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

A federal judge who already questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive ...

Nor is he empowered by any other source of law to limit who receives United States citizenship at birth," the lawsuit said. Four additional states filed a similar suit later in the day ...

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 ...

“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 ...