Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

Immigrants have made America great. Some have come to improve their own prospects in life. More have come to create ...

Among a flurry of executive orders issued after his inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20, Trump announced an order, entitled ...

America First Legal filed two amicus briefs this week in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order ending ...

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

Despite what many pundits and even lower court judges are saying, this is not a slam dunk for the president's opponents.

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” ...

On Presidents Day, the museum invited over two dozen people to celebrate their accomplishment of citizenship with their ...

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

The Justice Department argued that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted by the Supreme Court and doesn’t grant ...

It’s part of who we are. The White House executive order theoretically ending birthright citizenship grandly proclaims its purpose as “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” As ...

Central and South America. Birthright citizenship became the law of the land in the United States with the passage of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution in 1866, not long after the end of the ...