My mother’s ability to survive and provide for me was made possible by her birthright citizenship, writes Paola Mendoza.

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

President Trump has signed an executive order to effectively end birthright citizenship. Here's what it means, and how the 14th Amendment is related.

Liberal groups hope the conservative Supreme Court will reverse Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order True to his word, President Donald Trump, with the stroke of his pen, upended more than a century of legal precedent with this declaration: “The privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States.