As legal experts have explained, the text of the amendment itself disproves Trump’s claim, which the court’s conservatives — ...

Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s ...

President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying citizenship to children of ...

And in creating a new country, Paine enthusiastically said, they were preparing “an asylum for mankind.” General George ...

The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

Since 1790 federal law had limited naturalization to “any free white person,” thus excluding Black, “Indian” (from Canada, Mexico, or Latin America), Chinese, South Asian, or Pacific ...

European immigrants — Italians, Irish, Germans, Jews and, later, Eastern and Southern Europeans — were broadly understood to fall under the protections of the original 1790 Naturalization Act ...

Yet, Congress passed the 1790 Naturalization Act to limit citizenship to white persons and used military force to deport African Americans to Liberia. That was not immigration.

On June 18, 1798, Congress passed the Naturalization Act, that extended the residency requirement for immigrants from five to fourteen years before they could attain citizenship.