birthright citizenship
Posted Nov 1, 2018, 11:35 am
Hannah Wiley
/Texas Tribune
While President Trump vows to end citizenship rights for children born to non-U.S. citizens through an executive order, political analysts and immigrants themselves say that wouldn't deter illegal immigration.... Read more»
Posted Oct 31, 2018, 1:35 pm
Hana DeMent & Ali Phillips/Cronkite News
Can a president change the Constitution by way of executive order? President Donald Trump thinks he can, saying in an interview this week that he plans to revoke the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.... Read more»
Posted Oct 31, 2018, 12:51 pm
Vandana Ravikumar
/Cronkite News
Arizona native Francisco Fernandez holds a college degree and a job with a nonprofit in the nation’s capital – none of which, he said, would have been possible without the citizenship status conferred on him at birth.... Read more»
Posted Nov 16, 2011, 1:38 pm
Whitney Phillips
/Cronkite News Service
Over the past seven years, the Dominican government has re-written its constitution, re-interpreted old laws and passed new ones, effectively eliminating birthright citizenship. Today, a child born in the Dominican Republic is no longer automatically a citizen; citizenship goes only to those who can prove they have at least one documented parent.... Read more»