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Under United States Federal law (8 U.S.C. § 1401), a person is a United States national and citizen if: the person is born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof; the person is born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Inuit, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe (see Indian Citizenship Act of 1924)
By acts of Congress, every person born in Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands is a United States citizen by birth. [49] Also, every person born in the former Panama Canal Zone whose father or mother (or both) are or were a citizen is a United States citizen by birth. [50]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. First sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Citizenship Clause is the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was adopted on July 9, 1868, which states: All persons born or naturalized in the United States ...
Trump's policy appears to clash with the 14th Amendment to the Constitution approved in 1868. The amendment says, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...
Birthright is the concept of things being due to a person upon or by fact of their birth, or due to the order of their birth. These may include rights of citizenship based on the place where the person was born or the citizenship of their parents, and inheritance rights to property owned by parents or others.
PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks to the press after after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 31, 2025.
The court, in a 4-3 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, decided in favor of the university in turning aside the conservative challenge to the policy.
Wong Kim Ark, born in California to Chinese merchants living in the US, left to visit China and then sought to re-enter the United States based on his status as a citizen from birth. The government refused entry, claiming that under Chinese law Wong Kim Ark owed allegiance to China and thus lacked the complete allegiance to the US required by ...