Is America on the verge of rewriting who’s in? That’s the echo sounding through courtrooms and neighborhoods in the wake of President Trump’s Executive Order 14160, which, as of January 2025, seeks to flip on its head a pillar of American identity: birthright citizenship.

A federal judge in New Hampshire certified a class action lawsuit over President Trump's birthright citizenship order and issued a preliminary injunction blocking it.

If U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans is no longer secure, then neither is the colonial arrangement that produced it.

The judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking Trump's order and certified a class action lawsuit including all children who will be affected.

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices.

He has temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order by certifying a class action to cover babies born in all 50 states. This marks the next stage of a messy legal fight that raises new questions about how to apply the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v.

There was our guiding light: The 14th Amendment, passed 100 years earlier. It extended citizenship to all persons born on American soil — a direct repudiation of the racist Dred Scott opinion, which once declared that Black people “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.