The bill's Republican backers say it will help make it easier to determine citizenship when someone votes. Democrats say it ...

President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders on his first day in office, including a long-promised attempt to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...

The order titled the "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship" states that "the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United ...

Nor is he empowered by any other source of law to limit who receives United States citizenship at birth," the lawsuit by 18 Democratic-led states said. "If this unprecedented executive action is ...

Here are some things to know as the court battle gets underway. Birthright citizenship in the United States There are exceptions to birthright citizenship in the United States — it is not ...

US President Donald Trump has been sued by a coalition of Democratic-leaning states and civil rights groups over his plan to end birthright citizenship in the United States. Several separate ...

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 ...

It goes so far as to prohibit US citizenship for children born to people living in the United States on temporary work, student, or tourist visas. This will affect lakhs of Indian nationals ...

It would be sufficient to deny them documentation of citizenship. Third, the order simply withholds the issuance of certain identity documents: It is the policy of the United States that no ...

If allowed to stand, Trump's order could deny citizenship to over 150,000 children born annually in the United States, according to the the office of Washington Attorney General Andrea Nick Brown ...