Rubio, a son of immigrants and now secretary of state, was responding to a 2016 lawsuit questioning his eligibility for the ...

Federal officials are moving to reinstate a stricter version of the U.S. citizenship test, a change critics say could limit ...

"It entails a holistic assessment of an alien’s behavior, adherence to societal norms, and positive contributions that ...

Thirty years later, the Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the clause means just what it says: Anyone born in America is a citizen of America.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled that President Trump's administration cannot withhold citizenship from children ...

Let's begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of ...

The judges seemed dubious about the executive order's constitutionality, but wondered whether the plaintiffs even have ...

The Trump administration is developing a powerful data tool it claims will let states identify noncitizens registered to vote ...

It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...

Trump's birthright citizenship ban would deny citizenship to people born in the United States after February 19, 2025, where the mother is without legal status and the father is not a citizen or ...

Thirty-two individuals from 17 countries became new United States citizens during the annual Naturalization Ceremony in ...