At a time when Indian were not eligible for a US citizenship, Bhicaji Balsara, a textile merchant from Bombay (now Mumbai), fought and won a lengthy legal battle against racist citizenship laws, and ...

The constitutionally enumerated powers of Congress include establishing a “uniform rule of naturalization” but ... expression in Washington’s 1790 letter to a Hebrew congregation in Newport ...

It was established in the U.S. by the Fourteenth Amendment, which was adopted in 1868. The Naturalization Act of 1790 granted ...

“We will firmly oppose any efforts to undermine these fundamental rights.” “From the 1790 Naturalization Act to the infamous Dred Scott decision, U.S. citizenship has long been shaped to uphold racial ...

Immigrant mothers fear their children could live in stateless limbo after the president’s sweeping executive action, Alex Woodward reports ...

She feels it is deeply wrong to subject an innocent newborn to such cruelty.” The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied to only “free white persons,” and the Supreme Court’s reviled decision ...