At least 33 countries, mostly in the Americas, provide automatic citizenship to anyone born within their borders.

The US has historically given automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country, but this principle is not the norm ...

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

President Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship in the United States. What is it, which other countries apply the ...

Johnson said the U.S. is one of a "very few" nations with birthright citizenship. Thirty-five nations have it, but "very few" is a pretty subjective number when compared to 195 total countries.

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

In Europe, bloodline citizenship has helped maintain ties with citizens who leave the country, and their descendants. But ...

A federal court in New Hampshire today blocked President Trump’s executive order that seeks to strip certain babies born in ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end universal birthright citizenship and limit it at ...

A federal judge in Maryland has ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in the countr ...

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued the injunction at a hearing on a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups arguing ...