The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied to only “free white persons,” but the 14th Amendment that ended slavery in the country also established citizenship for freed Black Americans, as well as “all ...

The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied to only “free white persons,” and the Supreme Court’s reviled decision in Dred Scott v Sandford in 1857 affirmed that citizenship could not be granted ...

That this is the original meaning is obvious from the Naturalization Act of 1790. It was enacted by the first Congress, which included several of the framers, and signed into law by President ...

As President-elect Donald Trump looks to make sweeping changes to immigration policy in his second term, we revisit the ...

By LaKeshia N. Myers Fifty-five years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his seminal “Where Do We Go From Here” speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, his prophetic words ...

Section 2169, Revised Statutes, provides that the provisions of the Naturalization Act "shall apply to aliens ... original framers of the statute in 1790. But in this country, during the last ...

Eighteen states have sued the federal government over the executive order, showing the legal challenges the president will ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of ...