The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

The ruling keeps a block on the Trump administration from denying citizenship to children born to people who are in the ...

Thirty years later, the Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the clause means just what it says: Anyone born in America is a citizen of America.

Babies born to immigrants without full legal status in the 28 states where there was no challenge to the executive order could be deprived of U.S. citizenship, raising concerns that a month from ...

In an 1898 ruling about the citizenship of a man born in the United States to Chinese parents, the Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment, “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the ...

In U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether a man born in the United States to parents who were Chinese Nationals was a citizen at birth under the 14th Amendment.

The 1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark case was the first to consider whether children born to parents without legal status are citizens. Two of the “best” malls in the country are in suburban ...

About 10,000 babies are born in the U.S. every day. Investigating the parents' citizenship would require a sizable bureaucracy at taxpayer expense.