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Efforts to redefine the 14th Amendment could leave thousands of children stateless and trigger constitutional battles.
Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily. It is part of the hard-line immigration agenda of the president, who has called birthright citizenship a “magnet for illegal immigration.”
Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order
Let's begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized
President Donald Trump is fighting to end automatic citizenship for children born to parents who are in the country unlawfully or on temporary visas, part of his broader crackdown on undocumented immigrants and a change that could overturn more than a century of legal precedent.
President Trump's 2025 executive order challenges the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship, sparking legal battles and controversy. While aiming to restrict citizenship for certain U.S.-born children,
The goal is certainly to frighten naturalized citizens into refraining from criticizing the administration — in other words, to chill their free speech rights. Pointing out the legal limitations
D: Donald Trump posted on Saturday that he is giving “serious consideration” to revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship. The president posted on Truth Social, “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country,
Amid the uncertainty and potential changes in the naturalization process to be a U.S. citizen, here are five things to know.
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If U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans is no longer secure, then neither is the colonial arrangement that produced it.