Trump and now-Vice President J.D. Vance last summer repeated the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were stealing ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in ...

The Trump administration is pushing for the the U.S. Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright citizenship even as legal battles continue over President Donald Trump’s orders to end what ...

The judges deemed the order a violation of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship ... was passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, in 1868. It awarded citizenship rights to emancipated ...

Leaving birthright citizenship to the Roberts court is walking into a minefield - legislation is the smarter route to end ...

In one of his first acts as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending ...

The vast majority of those children were U.S. citizens. Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in July 1868, soon after the Civil War. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and ...

Jacob Howard (R-MI) as evidence that the 14th Amendment’s original intent did ... aliens because “there were no illegal aliens in 1868.” Although mid-19th century American immigration ...