President Donald Trump’s first day back in the White House, he issued Executive Order 14160 “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” The directive attempted to nullify birthright citizenship,

Courts have upheld the centuries-long history of birthright citizenship. If the Trump administration tries to end it, the question seems likely to reach the Supreme Court again.

The History Behind the Birthright Citizenship Battle. The 14th Amendment, which declared that African-Americans were citizens, turned 150 earlier this month.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order denying what's called birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents here without legal status. More ...

The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" is key to the Supreme Court's forthcoming decision, and if the court follows the original intent of the 14th Amendment's nativistic Republican drafters, it will rule that the children of unnaturalized, illegal immigrants are not ipso facto citizens of the United States by virtue of their birth here.

NPR's Throughline hosts and producers, Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, tell us the story of how birthright citizenship began in 1898 with the Supreme Court case, U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark.