With one signature, President Donald Trump ended birthright citizenship where children born here were U.S. citizens even if their parents weren't.
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,
The orders signed at the White House included a directive to end birthright citizenship, a move sure to spark a constitutional fight over the 14th Amendment.
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.
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.
The 47th president pressed the point during litigation over his eligibility for office after Jan. 6. He was sworn in again on Monday.
Two dozen Democratic-led states and cities are challenging President Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship in court, a major constitutional challenge to one of the White House’s signature policies.
Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.
After the Civil War, the Constitution was amended to consider every baby born in the US an American. Soon that may change.
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a move to cut off a longstanding constitutional right that could leave hundreds of thousands of Texas children without legal status.
Trump's executive order interprets the law in his favor, but with lawsuits already pending, legal experts have been skeptical he'll succeed.
Put simply, under Trump’s order, the children of most undocumented immigrants wouldn’t be US citizens, nor would the children of people in the country on student, work, or tourist visas. This is more than a reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment — it’s an attempt to do away with the jus soli principle that undergirds US citizenship.