What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...
What is birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which Donald Trump has vowed to end?
Birthright citizenship rights are included in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and would be extremely difficult to overturn. Birthright citizenship, known legally as "jus soli", is Latin for ...
The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship
The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.