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Fight over Trump's order to deny birthright citizenship heads toward Supreme Court, with 14th Amendment protections at stake ...
Each year, tens of thousands of pregnant women travel to the United States just to give birth. It’s what’s called Birth ...
Trump is calling for a "new" census that excludes people in the U.S. without legal status. The 14th Amendment requires 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.
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 ...