News

Confused about the status of birthright citizenship in the US? Here is what to know
Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order ...
Push to end birthright citizenship raises legal and social alarms
Efforts to redefine the 14th Amendment could leave thousands of children stateless and trigger constitutional battles.
Can American Citizens Lose Their Citizenship?
Let's begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized ...
What’s next for President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order in the courts
A federal judge in New Hampshire has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
'Nothing less than the right to have rights': Mothers refashion birthright citizenship lawsuit into class action
"Stripping birthright citizenship will have deleterious consequences. It will render stateless thousands of children born to immigrants residing in the United States." The post 'Nothing less than the ...
SCOTUSblog9h
Taking stock of Trump’s immigration requests on the emergency docket
Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...
How the Supreme Court's injunction ruling advances Trump's birthright citizenship fight
The Supreme Court's ruling on universal injunctions brings Trump closer to changing how citizenship is granted to babies born ...
Opinion
The end of birthright citizenship could be an opportunity for Puerto Rican independence
If U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans is no longer secure, then neither is the colonial arrangement that produced it.