Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order

Cotton Bill Targets Birthright Citizenship Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) on Tuesday introduced the "Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act," a piece of legislation aimed at redefining birthright citizenship by excluding children born in the U.

Efforts to redefine the 14th Amendment could leave thousands of children stateless and trigger constitutional battles.

Let's begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized

"Stripping birthright citizenship will have deleterious consequences. It will render stateless thousands of children born to immigrants residing in the United States." The post 'Nothing less than the right to have rights': Mothers refashion birthright citizenship lawsuit into class action,

The goal is certainly to frighten naturalized citizens into refraining from criticizing the administration — in other words, to chill their free speech rights. Pointing out the legal limitations

If U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans is no longer secure, then neither is the colonial arrangement that produced it.

On the Fourth of July, beneath a sun that seemed to soften just in time for the ceremony, one hundred immigrants reminded the crowd of the enduring allure of American citizenship as they swore their allegiance to the United States.