citizenship

Attorney General Pam Bondi Announces New Mexico Drug Trafficking Bust

National

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship

5:00am June 30, 2025

Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually used in only the most serious and rare of cases: dealing with Nazis or war criminals.

Man holds american flag in front of citizenship paperwork

Immigration

DOGE cuts Greensboro-based citizenship education program

3:44pm April 28, 2025

by April Laissle

Free legal services for those seeking citizenship have been eliminated as a result of the changes. One of three related classes was cancelled too, at a time of increasing popularity.

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National

4 takeaways from the week: In a world that craves stability, Trump brings the chaos

5:00am April 11, 2025

President Trump's trade war sent global markets reeling this week. How Trump has handled tariffs shows the farthest thing from stability and predictability. A look at this and three other takeaways.

National

He's a decorated war vet but a convicted criminal. ICE wants to deport him

3:14pm April 04, 2025

Jose Barco's story is one of battlefield trauma, bureaucratic bumbling and eventually, a serious crime.

National

Biden's plan will shield undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation

1:28pm June 18, 2024

Executive actions from the White House will offer parole to up to half a million immigrants.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley participates in fourth Republican Presidential Primary Debate on on December 6, 2023 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Bringing birther back, Donald Trump questions Nikki Haley's right to be president

11:42am January 10, 2024

by Franco Ordoñez

The former governor of South Carolina, Haley was born in the southern state. But as she surges in Republican polls, Trump is elevating false conspiracy theories about her citizenship on social media.

Amalija Knavs, mother of first lady Melania Trump, walks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, June 18, 2017. Knavs has died, according to an announcement by Trump late Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.

Former first lady Melania Trump's mother has died

1:41am January 10, 2024

by Ayana Archie

Trump described her mother, Amalija Knavs, as strong and graceful in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Knavs, a native of Slovenia, became a U.S. citizen in 2018.

Hertz has apologized and rewritten company policy after a Puerto Rican man was denied a rental car despite showing his valid U.S. driver's license.

National

Yes, Puerto Rican licenses are valid in the U.S., Hertz reminds its employees

5:01am May 26, 2023

by Becky Sullivan

A Puerto Rican man was denied a car rental at a Hertz location at the New Orleans airport where employees apparently believed his driver's license was from outside the U.S. Hertz has since apologized.

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega has consolidated his power since popular protests erupted in 2018.

World News

Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents of citizenship

1:10pm February 16, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

President Daniel Ortega intensifies his political crackdown, stripping 94 of the most prominent Nicaraguan writers, journalists and human rights activists of citizenship. They lose all their rights.

The State Department has updated its policy regarding granting citizenship to children born via in vitro fertilization or surrogacy. Its earlier rules denied citizenship to those children unless they had direct genetic ties to their parent who was a U.S.

U.S. Ends Policy Of Denying Citizenship To Children Born Via IVF Or Surrogacy

10:42am May 19, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The State Department says its updated policy "takes into account the realities of modern families" and advances in reproductive technology.