When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American.

The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of citizenship.

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to end birthright citizenship. But his stated policy goal is in tension with the Constitution, and an executive order from the Trump White House ...

Australia passed tough anti-hate crime laws on Thursday (February 6), including mandatory minimum sentences for terror ...

Johnson previously said at a Senate hearing that the U.S. is in the "minority" of countries that grant birthright citizenship ...

Donald Trump's approach is clear: make immigration and asylum more difficult, deport undocumented immigrants, close the borders. He has already signed several executive orders to implement his plans.

Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship.   That ...

But, no, we don’t know very well that the United States is the only country in the world that grants unconditional birthright ...

Legal experts say the undocumented population would grow and that all Americans would be impacted if Trump’s order ending ...

Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship sparks GOP divisions Steve Jobs adopted a no ‘bozos’ policy and said the best managers are those who never wanted the job—here are his 3 best ...

I’ve written about the topic for 35 years. For all that time, the idea of birthright citizenship — i.e., the requirement that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen, even if their parents ...