What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through what the amendment says,
What is birthright citizenship, and which countries have it?
President Donald Trump has falsely claimed the U.S. is alone in offering citizenship as a birthright. More than 30 countries do — but some have rolled it back.
22 states challenge Trump's executive order cutting birthright citizenship
President Trump's bid to cut off birthright citizenship is "flagrantly unlawful," attorneys for 18 states said in a lawsuit challenging the president's executive order.
22 states sue to stop Trump’s order blocking birthright citizenship
Attorneys general in 18 states sued Tuesday to block the order, saying birthright citizenship cannot be undone with the stroke of the president’s pen.
States, civil rights groups sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.
Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship could have significant impact on Texas
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict birthright citizenship could have significant repercussions for Texas and other border states that have large numbers of immigrants in the country legally and illegally.
NY, 21 other states sue Trump over birthright citizenship, calling executive order unconstitutional
Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.
Nevada AG Aaron Ford joins lawsuit challenging Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford is joining 21 other state attorneys general in suing to block an executive order from President Donald Trump that would end birthright citizenship in the United States
Twenty-two States Sue to Stop Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
The lawsuit to block the president’s executive order is the first salvo in what is likely to be a long-running legal fight over immigration policy.
California among the states suing Trump's executive order targeting birthright citizenship
The executive order restricts automatic citizenship for babies born to parents who aren't citizens or lawful, permanent residents.
To end birthright citizenship, Trump misreads the constitution
America started doing so at the end of the Civil War. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which held that black people were not Americans. The 14th Amendment ensured that freed slaves and their children would henceforth be citizens.
New Hampshire couple from Indonesia on front lines of fight over birthright citizenship
President Trump’s executive order could create a “multigenerational subclass of people born in the US but who are denied full ...
18 states sue Trump administration over order seeking to overturn birthright citizenship
President Trump invoked presidential powers to begin his long-promised immigration crackdown shortly after taking office on ...
18 states sued to block Trump's push to end birthright citizenship — which could impact hundreds of thousands of children each year
Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, which could impact as many as 250,000 children each year.
Change to Birthright Citizenship Would Affect Visa Holders, Too
President Trump’s public rhetoric has focused on undocumented immigrants, but the raft of new orders he signed would also ...