Changes to birthright citizenship law could significantly affect millions of people born in the United States, making the ...

Legal minds will have their opportunity to shape the future policies of our land, and I pray they have the grace and wisdom ...

More than 1 million people who were granted legal entry to the country under different programs are now being considered ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma ...

Freedmen descendants in Oklahoma continue fighting for tribal citizenship as Juneteenth highlights both freedom and ongoing exclusion.

It’s part of the promise of the New World, that the Western Hemisphere would be, as the American revolutionary Thomas Paine ...

Almost 100,000 residents of Marion County are foreign born. IndyStar spoke with a few about their journey to Indiana and ...

On the day of his second inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American ... declaring that birthright citizenship does ...

However, Congress changed that rule in 1924 and extended birthright citizenship to Native Americans. Since 1898, the Supreme Court has agreed that birthright citizenship extends to the native-born ...

which granted birthright citizenship to all non-citizen Native Americans born within the U.S. And, in 1898, the high court ruled that children born in the U.S. to non-citizen immigrants were ...

Those born to parents of sovereign Native American tribes were also excluded until the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. Most countries with unconditional birthright citizenship, among them Canada ...