The court in 1898 ruled that the protections and guarantees afforded by the 14th Amendment belong to citizens and noncitizens alike, “so long as they are permitted by the United States to ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows growing support for some restrictions on immigration. Still, many elements of President Trump's ...

U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante’s order marks the third time in less than a week that a federal court has blocked the Trump administration’s day-one executive order that sought to preclude the ...

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

Despite Trump’s effort to present himself as an agent of overwhelming force, he is encountering persistent and growing ...

Weakening the public legitimacy of the judiciary amounts to weakening the foundations of our constitutional structure.

The ruling on Thursday comes after three other federal judges blocked the order in recent weeks, including one in Seattle who ...

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...

No matter how many deportations the government orders or how many walls it builds, migrants will still be inexorably drawn to ...

Many Indian families rely on birthright citizenship for their U.S.-born children to gain legal standing and, eventually, help ...

States and advocacy groups for immigrants have filed at least eight lawsuits around the country challenging President Donald Trump's executive order.