Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s ...

As legal experts have explained, the text of the amendment itself disproves Trump’s claim, which the court’s conservatives — ...

President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying citizenship to children of immigrants who are not permanent residents or citizens after the Supreme Court ...

European immigrants — Italians, Irish, Germans, Jews and, later, Eastern and Southern Europeans — were broadly understood to fall under the protections of the original 1790 Naturalization Act ...

UNITED STATES v. WONG KIM ARK. He was detained aboard steamships for five months while his case moved through the courts. The ...

Yet, Congress passed the 1790 Naturalization Act to limit citizenship to white persons and used military force to deport African Americans to Liberia. That was not immigration. It was colonization.