The United States is one of 30 countries, including Canada and Mexico, that offer virtually automatic citizenship to everyone born within their borders. The concept of birthright citizenship was ...

In the UK, the phenomenon is labelled by some as the “Lagos Shuttle”, highlighting the high number of Nigerian women said to ...

Immigrant groups and Democratic states pushed back on a Trump administration request for the Supreme Court to allow curbs on ...

U.S. Supreme Court precedent recognizes birthright citizenship. The president cannot rewrite the Constitution | Opinion ...

Many thanks to Prof. Evan Bernick for his insightful guest-blogging posts on birthright citizenship over the past week. For convenience, here are links to all of his posts, gathered in one place: 1.

A coalition of Democratic-led states and immigrant rights groups is urging the Supreme Court to preserve birthright citizenship and uphold a nationwide block on a Trump administration order ...

Moreover, advocacy groups for immigrants said the bid to end birthright citizenship violated the country’s ethos. “The order conflicts with the bedrock principle that ours is ‘a new nation, conceived ...

During the conversation, Chiu told Bonta that his office was planning to challenge any effort by Trump to restrict birthright citizenship. Was Bonta’s office interested in doing the same? It was. In ...

Every single Supreme Court decision considering the issue of birthright found all persons born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens. Getty Images Some 75 days into his presidency, Donald Trump has not ...

Trump's anti-birthright executive order is often described as being targeted at people who enter the country unlawfully. But its scope is broader, closely tracking the anti-birthright "theory" of ...

The U.S. solicitor general's office requested that the orders only remain in place as to the individuals who brought the lawsuits, which would leave Trump’s denial of birthright citizenship in ...