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The policies and debates surrounding dual citizenship, including birthright citizenship and the eligibility for U.S. citizenship.
Melania Trump became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2006, with multiple contemporaneous reports specifying July 2006 as the month she completed naturalization . That timing has no bearing on the U.S. c...
is an American national by birth: he was born in , on June 14, 1946, and official White House and historical biographies state his birthplace and parentage . His family background is of and Scottish d...
Yes—multiple mainstream biographical and news sources record ’s birthdate as March 20, 2006, and his birthplace as . Those contemporary profiles and news stories consistently report the same facts whi...
Donald J. Trump was born in Queens, New York, in 1946 and, under the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment and the prevailing nationality statutes that incorporated it, was a United States citizen at bi...
All five of ’s children are U.S. citizens by birth or parentage; none are U.S. citizens by naturalization, and at least one — — has been reported to likely hold dual U.S.-n citizenship through his mot...
estimates of the undocumented (or unauthorized) immigrant population rest on a mix of survey “residual” calculations, administrative flow accounting, microdata bottom‑up reconstructions and alternativ...
The of the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to overturn and secure birthright citizenship for formerly enslaved people, and courts have since read it as embedding a broad jus soli rule while carving o...
The century-plus legal practice of granting citizenship to nearly everyone born on soil now faces an acute constitutional and political assault: the fast-tracked review of the Trump administration’s e...
Contemporary reporting and fact‑checks establish that ’s three eldest children were born in and therefore are citizens by birth, and that became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1988 — claims that underc...