What does it mean to be a U.S. citizen.

The 14th Amendment's citizenship clause is under scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

If you're born here in the United States, then you are, in fact, an American citizen.

The fundamental question of who gets U.S. citizenship is, in fact, evolving.

On President Trump's first day in office, he issued an executive order to end that right

for the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally.

Earlier this year, we brought you a story about the Trump administration's efforts to end birthright citizenship.

If this injunction wasn't maintained or they attempted to lift it, these women would have stateless children.

Today on Latino USA, we're going to bring you an episode from our friends at L.A.

The NPR station in Los Angeles.

This story looks at another side of the citizenship issue, the new naturalization guidelines

for people hoping to become U.S. citizens.

This is something that has become even more difficult under the Trump administration.

So we're going to play some of the episode from The Show in Perfect Paradise.

The show's host, Nereida Moreno, is going to speak with reporter Julia Rajas about the changes playing out

inside a citizenship prep class at Pasadena City College.

So, Julia, I'm curious, how did you start looking into this story and what made you decide to

explore a citizenship class?

Yeah, so earlier this summer, our organization got a message from a woman

named Melissa Michelson. She's an associate professor at Pasadena City College. And she also happens to be

a loyal, LAS reader and listener. And she wrote in saying, you know, right now it feels very hard to be

teaching students from other countries who want to be citizens.

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