Trump signs executive orders targeting birthright citizenship
The orders direct agencies to curb birth-tourism businesses and prosecute related fraud, after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s earlier effort.
- President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at limiting the scope of birthright citizenship and directing federal agencies to crack down on the commercial "birth tourism" industry, reviving a key immigration policy objective despite previous legal setbacks.
- One order seeks to deny automatic U.S. citizenship in certain cases involving children born to parents who allegedly entered or remained in the country through fraudulent use of temporary visas, with the administration arguing that the policy fits within constitutional exceptions.
- The second order instructs the Departments of State and Homeland Security to develop measures targeting birth tourism operations in the United States and abroad, as federal scrutiny of companies offering such services continues.
- Legal experts expect the new directives to face immediate court challenges, following the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2026 ruling that struck down Trump's earlier executive order restricting birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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If you are born in the USA, you automatically get your citizenship. Trump tried to bring this practice down - and failed. But that doesn't stop him from trying again. Now with two new decrees.
Disregarding the Supreme Court ruling, Trump proceeded to sign two new executive orders restricting birthright citizenship, aiming to prevent foreign women from entering the U.S. to give birth and obtain American citizenship.
President Donald Trump signed a couple of orders against maternity tourism, waiting for them to deny American nationality by birthright.
Trump Moves Against Birthright Citizenship
After being stymied by the Supreme Court on the issue, President Trump moved Thursday to chip away at birthright citizenship, signing two executive orders that target both "birth tourism" and certain children born in the US to noncitizens. The orders would bar automatic citizenship for kids of some foreign government...
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