In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

A bill introduced by a House Republican requiring voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship when they register to ...

US senators have reintroduced the Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act to reunite Filipino WWII veterans with their ...

President Donald Trump's administration says it’s appealing a Maryland federal judge’s ruling that blocks the president’s ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday signed an order to rename Fort Liberty in North Carolina back to its original Fort ...

A federal judge who just blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of ...

A federal judge in Boston on Friday will consider a request from 18 state attorneys general to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the ...

A federal judge in Maryland has ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end ...

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

The question of citizenship was foremost on the minds of abolitionists and free Black people in the years before the Civil War. As historian Martha S. Jones describes in her book “Birthright ...

My world fell apart,” says Liza, a grad student in Texas who’s 24 weeks pregnant. Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship ... Getting a birth certificate from the Russian ...