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Since 2000, federal appellate courts and the Supreme Court have continued to treat non‑citizens as “persons” under constitutional protections but have limited equal‑protection holdings directly applyi...
Since 2020 courts have continued to define how the 14th Amendment protects noncitizens—most decisively through lower-court fights over detention, due process, and birthright citizenship that reached t...
(or “illegal”) noncitizens are not invisible under the law: many constitutional protections—most notably and equal protection—apply to “persons” in U.S. jurisdiction, a principle and legal experts hav...
U.S. courts have repeatedly treated undocumented immigrants as “persons” entitled to many 14th Amendment protections—most notably equal protection and due process—while also allowing significant immig...
Undocumented children in the United States are protected by a layered statutory and settlement framework that guarantees basic care, placement standards, access to education, and pathways to relief, b...