Cotton Bill Targets Birthright Citizenship Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) on Tuesday introduced the "Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act," a piece of legislation aimed at redefining ...

Efforts to redefine the 14th Amendment could leave thousands of children stateless and trigger constitutional battles.

Let's begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized ...

The goal is certainly to frighten naturalized citizens into refraining from criticizing the administration — in other words, ...

"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 ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order ...

The national debate over immigration has reached a flashpoint, with emotions high and often misconceptions about the process ...

Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s ...

Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in ...