In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

Brave New World’ says it’s about uniting against greater evils—and responds to the recent uproar over Anthony Mackie’s comments about the character.

Hamas has promised to release Israeli captives as part of the ceasefire deal. Here, we put faces to the names and tell their ...

Now that Elon Musk has assumed great power within the United States government, many are asking about his citizenship and where he was born.

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

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

The Republican president's order directed U.S. agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States after February 19 if neither their mother nor father is a U.S ...

Mere hours after taking the presidency on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that would strip certain babies born in the United States of their U.S. citizenship.

The US has historically given automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country, but this principle is not the norm ...

A third federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s order to stop providing citizenship to children born in the United States to parents without legal authorization. U.S. District Judge ...

Wong Kim Ark’s victory in the Supreme Court in 1898 affirmed the constitutional guarantee of automatic citizenship for nearly all children born in the United States.Credit...National Archives ...

Soon after taking for the second time on January 20, Trump signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship in the United States. The order denies US citizenship to children born on ...