As the political season intensifies, long-standing questions regarding who holds the right to birthright citizenship have re-entered the national spotlight. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has proposed signing an executive order on his very first day back in office to strip birthright citizenship from future children born to undocumented immigrants. However, several of Trump’s […]
Political seasons routinely thrust foundational questions of American identity back into the national spotlight, and few tenets are as deeply woven into that identity as birthright citizenship. As the political landscape shifts ahead of upcoming elections, proposals to alter or revoke citizenship by birth for the children of undocumented immigrants have once again captured the […]
