Birthright citizenship refers to the legal principle of jus soli, or 'right of the soil,' where individuals born in a territory automatically receive citizenship. In the United States, this principle ...

On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, a cornerstone of immigration policy enshrined in the 14th Amendment and affirmed by ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to convene and hear arguments on Wednesday, April 1 on the legality of President Donald Trump's move to limit birthright citizenship by executive order, the president's ...

"Ask any American what our citizenship rule is, and they'll tell you, everyone born here is a citizen alike," ACLU attorney Cecilia Wang said during oral arguments in the Supreme Court's landmark ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In our last column, we imagined grilling Solicitor General D. John Sauer in a moot court on birthright citizenship. Today, we ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With its executive order, the government is claiming to want to restore the original ...

United States senator from Kentucky Rand Paul argues that illegal immigration was being used to obtain citizenship benefits.

Sen. Rand Paul has introduced a constitutional amendment to end automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to non-legal residents, citing a misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. The move comes as ...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week will consider the legality of one of the biggest items on President Donald Trump’s immigration-enforcement agenda—an executive order that seeks to end birthright ...

The Supreme Court will review President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for some children born in the U.S. Trump's order reinterprets the 14th Amendment to exclude ...

Alabama’s chief elections officer seems to despise democracy. Wes Allen has spent the vast majority of his public career making voting harder in Alabama. As a state representative, he sponsored a bill ...