American citizenship is more than a legal status—it is a sacred inheritance rooted in love of country, civic virtue, and ...

Alarm over reports of Chinese oligarchs having hundreds of American children via surrogates is coloring the increasingly ...

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In September the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a new, harder version of the civics test immigrants take when applying for citizenship. Sample questions include: Name five of ...

The echoes of Nazi-occupied Europe grow louder as ICE demands proof of citizenship from Americans based on racial profiling and suspicion. The reports, if accurate, are deeply disturbing: American ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment automatically makes all babies born ...

Legal scholars Amy Swearer and Hans von Spakovsky challenge birthright citizenship, arguing 14th Amendment excludes children ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Sept. 17 the implementation of the 2025 naturalization civics test as one of its many stricter naturalization policies, such as evaluations of good ...

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I was born in America. Which makes me a US citizen. My parents were citizens too: Dad by birth, and Mom by naturalization. But even if they weren’t, I’d still have a US passport based on 150 years of ...