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More U.S. citizens are considering obtaining a passport for a second country, with two major routes open to them.
The United States’ birthright citizenship may be unique, writes Armstrong Williams, but that doesn’t mean it should be ...
Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order ...
A federal judge who previously blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship spent more than an hour ...
Rights are never self-enforcing and there’s no language so perfect that having it written down will inherently resolve a ...
Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in ...
The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment states, simply: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...
In limited circumstances, such as fraud, the U.S. government can revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens — people who were born outside the U.S. and gained U.S. citizenship through a legal ...
Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s ...
It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...