U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin pressed the government about long-standing U.S. Supreme Court precedent that the 14th ...

A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the ...

No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation” in the past 125 years, the judge stated.

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

Native Americans born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens, and ICE cannot detain or deport them for immigration violations. Since ...

A federal judge in Boston on Friday will consider a request from 18 state attorneys general to block President Donald Trump’s ...

A federal judge Wednesday furthered a block of President Trump’s executive order preventing the children of migrants without ...

Wong Kim Ark. It was a case that would change the path of American immigration law and play a pivotal role in the ongoing battle over who gets to be a citizen of the United States. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

The key test came in 1898, when a Chinese-American (though back then the term would not have existed) named Wong Kim Ark was barred from re-entering the United States after a visit to China.

The principle was upheld by the 1898 Supreme Court case United States vs Wong Kim Ark, which affirmed that children born in the US are citizens, regardless of their parents' immigration status.

That decision, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, held that the only children who did not automatically receive U.S. citizenship upon being born on U.S. soil were children of diplomats, who have ...