For millions of permanent residents hoping to become U.S. citizens, the journey could soon get harder, as federal officials ...

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

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.

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 ...

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled that President Trump's administration cannot withhold citizenship from children ...

Its first sentence sums up the citizenship right guaranteed at birth: "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 ...

The Trump administration is developing a powerful data tool it claims will let states identify noncitizens registered to vote ...

The judges seemed dubious about the executive order's constitutionality, but wondered whether the plaintiffs even have ...

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 ...

Under the Executive Order, an individual born in the United States will not be extended citizenship if, at the time of birth, that individual’s: 1) Mother’s presence was unlawful OR lawful but ...