After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration is rolling out a series of new documents that offer a stark glimpse into how it would implement an executive order that upends the century-old understanding about the benefits of being born in the United States.

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

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-24 of Cleveland, Oswego County, has introduced the Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to “illegal

Ruling in two other lawsuits during the past month may also set back the Trump administration implementation of the measure that bars citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors.

BOSTON, MA — “American-born babies are American, just as they have been at every other time in our Nation’s history,” said New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants.