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Briefs urging the Supreme Court to stay injunctions against the order challenge "the conventional wisdom" about the meaning of an 1898 decision interpreting the 14th Amendment.

For more than 150 years, almost all people who were born within U.S. territory automatically received citizenship – regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

A federal judge on Thursday put a temporary block on US President Donald Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship.

On Monday, Trump instructed federal agencies to refuse to recognize US citizenship for children born in the US if their mother is in the country illegally or on a temporary visa and the father is neither a US citizen nor a lawful permanent resident.

Trump’s January order aimed to end the right to citizenship for some children born in the US – here’s what to know

The Constitution guarantees citizenship to anyone "born or naturalized in the United States"

As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to implement sweeping policy changes affecting American immigration and immigrants, one of the issues under scrutiny by his allies appears to be birthright citizenship – the declaration in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen,…

The executive order that the president-elect plans to issue contradicts the historical understanding of the 14th Amendment.

President-elect Donald Trump's promise to end the practice of birthright citizenship in the US with his return to office could be thwarted by a Supreme Court precedent that is over a century old, according to experts.