More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship.   That order prohibits federal agencies from issuing or accepting citizenship ...

In a world where people are more mobile than ever, nations are struggling to recalibrate who can be a citizen.

More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.

Thirty immigrants from 18 countries are now U.S. citizens following a ceremony at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka.

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , ...

UVA legal expert Amanda Frost explains the president’s executive order, the constitutional amendment he seeks to overturn and ...

Trump’s executive order looks to redefine the constitutional right of birthright citizenship to exclude the children of ...

The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution grants full citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States, ...

"Her father was (and is) a Jamaican national, her mother was from India, and neither was a naturalized U.S. citizen at the ...

Trump ordered an end to birthright citizenship, the longstanding principle that any child born on U.S. soil is a natural-born citizen.