When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American.

The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of citizenship.

Twenty-five people were sworn in as U.S. citizens on Friday at a naturalization ceremony in Hartford. Hear one family's story ...

In a time of much uncertainty in the federal bureaucracy, many still reach the end of their paths to citizenship in a ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A naturalization ceremony took place at the U.S. District Court in Syracuse on Friday morning. This ceremony ...

In the United States, as in Europe, the advent of national citizenship (as opposed to local citizenship) has mirrored and ...

The preliminary injunction is the second temporary hold against Trump’s executive order and puts efforts to end birthright ...

The injunction issued Thursday by a judge in Seattle came a day after another injunction stemming from a lawsuit in Maryland.

A federal judge in Seattle will hear arguments on blocking President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order, which ...

Johnson previously said at a Senate hearing that the U.S. is in the "minority" of countries that grant birthright citizenship ...