Both the Biden administration and a longtime illegal alien who claimed he mistakenly checked a box on a driver license application falsely indicating he was a U.S. citizen told the Supreme Court this morning that a federal appeals court erred when it ruled deportation should proceed. How the high court rules in this case could…

Lawyers for both the Biden administration and a longtime illegal alien who falsely stated he was a U.S. citizen on a driver’s license application told a skeptical Supreme Court on Dec. 6 that a federal appeals court erred when it ruled a deportation order against the man should be allowed to stand. How the high…

BOSTON—Enes Freedom will now be linked forever to a word he says he fought for his entire life. The Boston Celtics center changed his name from Enes Kanter to Enes Kanter Freedom in celebration of him officially becoming a United States citizen on Monday. He said Tuesday that taking the citizenship oath was “maybe the most…

Commentary In 2016, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the commencement address to graduates at Hillsdale College in Michigan. While many speakers use commencement addresses to boost graduates’ confidence with lofty platitudes about following one’s dreams or believing in one’s potential, Justice Thomas chose to go a different route. He spoke not about what the…

The present article summarizes arguments in Victor Davis Hanson’s new book “The Dying Citizen” that appears this week from Basic Books. Only a little more than half of the current world’s 7 billion people are citizens of fully consensual governments. That lucky 50 percent alone enjoys constitutionally protected freedoms. Most are also Western. Or at…

Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book, “The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are Destroying the Idea of America,” is a prescient account of how the American conceptualization of citizenship has been eroded by progressive ideologues and those who wish to undermine the original intent of the Framers. He focuses on the categories of…

The illegal immigrant crisis continues under the Del Rio Bridge in Texas, Democrats hit a roadblock in their plans to create a pathway to citizenship for 8 million illegal immigrants, and protesters gathered at a Justice for J6 event in front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

BERLIN—Germany’s parliament approved changes on Friday that will make it easier for descendants of people who fled Nazi persecution to obtain citizenship, a move Jewish groups described as an important signal in the country responsible for the Holocaust. The amendments approved by the Bundestag lower house of parliament enshrine in law decrees from 2019 already…

The United States is now granting citizenship to children born through in vitro fertilization or other means of assisted reproductive technology, such as surrogacy. President Joe Biden’s administration is changing the federal government’s interpretation of Section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which outlines the requirements for acquisition of U.S. citizenship at birth. Previously, the…

TIJUANA, Mexico—In a dim church auditorium with three-story ceilings, nestled at the bottom of a steep, trash-strewn canyon in Tijuana, Mexico, the loud cries of hundreds of children pierce the air. Huddled inside, some sleeping on mats, over a thousand migrants from Central and South America have sought shelter in the Iglesia Embajadores de Jesús,…