Efforts to redefine the 14th Amendment could leave thousands of children stateless and trigger constitutional battles.

Heavenly citizenship doesn’t mean abdicating our earthly citizenship. Especially when it comes to speaking on behalf of the most vulnerable.

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices.

"Stripping birthright citizenship will have deleterious consequences. It will render stateless thousands of children born to immigrants residing in the United States." The post 'Nothing less than the right to have rights': Mothers refashion birthright citizenship lawsuit into class action,

Let's begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized

Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order

The goal is certainly to frighten naturalized citizens into refraining from criticizing the administration — in other words, to chill their free speech rights. Pointing out the legal limitations

A federal judge in New Hampshire has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.

The Supreme Court's ruling on universal injunctions brings Trump closer to changing how citizenship is granted to babies born to noncitizens in the U.S.

The legal fight over President Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship is advancing on a path toward the Supreme Court after a New Hampshire federal judge blocked the president's order on Thursday.

If U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans is no longer secure, then neither is the colonial arrangement that produced it.