Birthright citizenship helps spark US World Cup run (opens in new tab)

Historically, anyone born on US soil automatically has the right to citizenship. Trump wants to end that as part of wider restrictions on immigration. As Supreme Court justices prepare their ruling, Americans got a vivid illustration of the policy at work in the form of star US striker Folarin Balogun, who scored twice in the 4-1 rout over Paraguay. Balogun may have shone in the US jersey, but if not for an accident of fate he wouldn't even be American. "(My mother) came to the US to visit he...