June 17, 2021 - The rules of good citizenship are tolerably simple. The trouble is not in finding them out, the trouble is in living up to them after they have been found out. I think we all of us know fairly well what qualities they are which in their sum make up the type of character we like to see in man or wife, son or daughter. But I am afraid we do not always see them as well developed as we would like to.

Theodore Roosevelt — ‘In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself...

January 28, 2013 - It is not only necessary to Americanize the immigrants of foreign birth who settle among us, but it is even more necessary for those among us who are by birth and descent already Americans not to throw away our birthright, and, with incredible and contemptible folly, wander back to bow down before the alien gods whom our forefathers forsook.

It affirms that citizenship is not inherited through bloodlines or ancestry, but grounded in shared commitment and equal rights. Most countries in the Western Hemisphere recognize some form of birthright citizenship.

5 days ago - The Trump administration has announced renewed efforts to limit birthright citizenship for children born to immigrant parents under specific circumstances and children who are the result of “birth tourism.”

January 21, 2025 - The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through ...

July 9, 2026 - The first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment states the following: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”20 ...

2 days ago - Political opposition to jus soli birthright citizenship has arisen in the United States over the past several decades, punctuated by the election of Donald Trump—who explicitly opposes jus soli citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants—as President of the United States in 2016 and 2024. Upon taking office in 2025, Trump issued Executive Order 14160, which asserted that the federal government would ...

"No man can be a good citizen who is not a good husband and a good father, who is not honest in his dealings with other men and women, faithful to his friends and fearless in the presence of his foes," Roosevelt famously proclaimed in this early ...

The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

February 13, 2025 - Historian Gregory Downs explains the complicated history of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, including subsequent laws that undermined equal protections it guaranteed, as well as the court case affirming the definition of birthright citizenship we take for granted today.

January 21, 2025 - This guarantee, known as birthright citizenship, was established by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. It has been in place for more than 150 years. Hours after returning to power, President Trump issued an executive order that attempted to withhold citizenship to some children born in the U.S. The order would deny citizenship to certain U.S.-born children, unless at least one parent is a U.S.

March 25, 2025 - It's easy when you have the innate desire to turn every political function into a political spectacle like Teddy had. ... Yeah Johnson supporting the Burlingame Treaty while virtually all of his next many successors opposed Chinese immigration to varying extents is interesting. ... I did read it, that is how I know he was incorrect. No suggestion that Americans should only speak one language can be correct. Roosevelt was evidently ashamed of the cultural diversity in our country.

February 13, 2017 - This post is a bit off topic, but as the President invokes Theodore Roosevelt, I’d like to take some quotes from my favorite TR speech, which somehow hasn’t lost any resonance in a hundred years. In the Arena Teddy’s speech at the Sorbonne in Paris is most recognized for the much cited In the […]

January 26, 2016 - On Jan. 26, 1883, Roosevelt was just 25 years old and serving on the New York State Assembly when he delivered a speech in Buffalo, New York, entitled “The Duties of American Citizenship,”

Citizenship in this view is ultimately not a birthright or an inheritance, but a choice. Anything other than a consensual foundation for citizenship, the argument goes, would conflict with the Declaration's insistence that "Governments are ...

October 18, 2024 - A new factsheet from the American Immigration Council explains the origins of birthright citizenship, as well as laws currently governing birthright citizenship in the United States. The research concludes that the only way by which the United States could take away birthplace-based birthright citizenship would be to ratify an amendment to the U.S.

3 days ago - Additional details weren’t provided, but President Donald Trump said he thought his latest actions would be constitutional. In June, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s previous efforts and upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship. ... Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share ... WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is once more trying to limit the number of people who are born in the country who can become American citizens, in a sign that even after his first attempt at limiting birthright citizenship was rejected by the Supreme Court, he’s ready to try again. The president said he was signing two executive actions on immigration, including one limiting the number of people eligible for U.S. citizenship after being born in the United States, while another focused on stopping people from coming to the U.S.

June 30, 2007 - And I quote from Teddy Roosevelt (1907) " In the first place we should insist if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American