Universal birthright citizenship has long been considered a constitutional right that got its start in San Francisco, thanks ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt communicated some of the Trump administration’s abhorrent policies in her first ...

Because when it comes to birthright citizenship, the virtue signaling and armchair excoriation is not just silly -- it's dead ...

Several readers defend birthright citizenship as a constitutional right. One questions that view and says it should be ...

More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.

A Chinese man born in the San Francisco's Chinatown whose case would go on to set the precedent for who gets to be a U.S. citizen.

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark — whose landmark 1898 Supreme Court case helped establish a birthright citizenship for all ...

Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship raises some important questions regarding the interpretation of the ...

NPR's Throughline hosts and producers, Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, tell us the story of how birthright citizenship began in 1898 with the Supreme Court case, U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark.