Citizenship

The case of Francisco Erwin Galicia is one of many instances of a U.S. citizen being targeted for deportation.

The Constitution doesn't bar non-citizens from voting, but when San Francisco opened up school elections to all residents, a conservative firestorm followed.

The Supreme Court rejected the reasoning behind the administration's proposed addition of the question, so the president would need to provide a new rationale.

The high court's decision didn't take issue with the question itself, but rather the administration's tactics.

Here's what you need to know about Trump's assertion of executive privilege and what's ahead in the debate over the citizenship question.

Because the protection is only a temporary status and doesn't offer a path to citizenship, it puts recipients in a legal gray zone.

The hard drive of a deceased GOP strategist reveals an effort to undercount Democratic Latinxs.

Non-citizens in the military are now denied citizenship more frequently than their civilian counterparts. The Department of Defense appears to be behind the shift.

The five conservatives on the court seemed ready to rule against three lower courts, a collection of researchers and experts, and five former leaders of the Census Bureau.

For Border Patrol, the border encompasses a 100-mile zone that stretches inwards from Mexico, Canada, and every coast.

After a circuit court ordered the removal of a citizenship question from the census, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the case. On Friday, the high court agreed.

Uncertainty over the government's future operations and the addition of a citizenship question have left cities bracing for chaos during the upcoming census.

The judge ruled that, while the administration's move to include a citizenship question was not in itself unconstitutional, it was "unlawful for a multitude of independent reasons."

The government's litigation procedures carry a disturbingly high risk of mistakenly taking away citizenship from someone who committed neither crime nor fraud.

Monday marks the last day for public comment on the rule, which could make it harder for millions of immigrants who have used public services to acquire a green card or citizenship.

A unique program in the Mile High City seeks to integrate the city's growing immigrant and refugee population into its 75 neighborhoods—and the country as a whole.

Peter Brown remained locked in a county jail for weeks, as county officials waited for immigration authorities to deport him to Jamaica—a country he had never lived in.

Social science (and history) shows that repealing birthright citizenship is rarely an effective solution for an overburdened nation.

The Texas secretary of state's office has asked the state's attorney general to investigate a democratic mailer that had a checkbox indicating citizenship pre-checked.

Six lawsuits challenging the legality of the citizenship question, filed by various groups including the states of New York and California, are now pending in federal courts.

In a new working paper, five Census Bureau economists find that adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census would only reduce accuracy and increase costs.

Prime minister Hun Sen wants it both ways: He wants to claim a democratic mantle but doesn't want to deal with the pesky competition that comes with a genuine election.

New United States citizen Mosammat Rasheda Akter, originally Bangladesh, holds her seven-month-old daughter Fahmida as she sings the U.S. National Anthem during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 3rd, 2018.

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