Children of Immigrants Made Ohio What It Is. Constitutional Birthright Citizenship Made It Possible

Children of immigrants made Ohio what it is. Constitutional birthright citizenship made it possible

The Trump administration Thursday called on the U.S. Supreme Court to take action on three cases from lower courts dealing with the president's executive order ending the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.  (Getty Images)By the time my 18-year-old grandmother set off alone on a grueling ocean voyage to America from Sačurov in eastern Slovakia, the United States had severely limited the number of people from eastern and southern Euro…

The History Of Birthright Citizenship And Its Connection To Slavery

Source: Evgenia Parajanian / Getty Updated: June 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM EST With the Supreme Court’s latest decision involving birthright citizenship, its important to know its history. At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may appear to be separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined, grounded in the same constitutional principles, and shaped by the same racial and economic forces that eventually allowed African Ameri…

California officials vow to defend birthright citizenship

California officials vow to defend birthright citizenship kcpnews2 Tue, 07/01/2025 - 05:44 Image (California News Service) Click play to listen to this article. Audio file All babies born in California are still automatically American citizens and the state attorney general is vowing to keep it that way, despite a mixed ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.The justices limited the ability of lower-court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, i…

Reclaiming the Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Why Birthright Citizenship Isn’t Absolute

For more than a century, most Americans have assumed that anyone born on U.S. soil automatically becomes a citizen, regardless of their parents’ status. But this modern understanding of “birthright citizenship” isn’t what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended — and it’s time we revisit this crucial question. When the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868, its drafters aimed to resolve the legal status of formerly enslaved people, …