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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. Person's acquisition of United States citizenship by virtue of the circumstances of birth For laws regarding U.S. citizenship, see United States nationality law. For U.S. citizenship (birthright and naturalized), see Citizenship of the United States. United States citizenship and ...
The Supreme Court has not addressed whether the Citizenship Clause applies to U.S.-born children of people who are in the United States illegally. The main birthright citizenship case is from 1898 ...
Why does the US have birthright citizenship? ... In probably the worst moment in the US Supreme Court’s history, the Dred Scott decision of 1857, then-Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote for a 7 ...
There are two primary sources of citizenship: birthright citizenship, in which persons born within the territorial limits of the United States (except American Samoa) are presumed to be a citizen, or—providing certain other requirements are met—born abroad to a United States citizen parent, [6] [7] and naturalization, a process in which an ...
Jus soli (English: / dʒ ʌ s ˈ s oʊ l aɪ / juss SOH-ly [1] or / j uː s ˈ s oʊ l i / yooss SOH-lee, [2] Latin: [juːs ˈsɔliː]), meaning 'right of soil', is the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship.
A key case in the history of birthright citizenship came in 1898, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Wong Kim Ark, born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, was a U.S. citizen because he ...
President-elect Donald Trump again expressed his desire to end birthright citizenship through executive action in his first network news interview since winning the election. "The 14th Amendment ...
Case history; Prior: Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California; 71 F. 382: Holding; The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment must be interpreted in light of English common law, [1] and thus it grants U.S. citizenship to almost all children born to alien parents on American soil, with only a limited set of exceptions.