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 ...

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 ...

As President-elect Donald Trump looks to make sweeping changes to immigration policy in his second term, we revisit the history of immigration law through past presidencies starting in the 1700s.