Trump again limits US birthright citizenship with new executive orders

Key Points:

• Former President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aiming to restrict birthright citizenship, including expanding definitions of non-citizens whose children are ineligible and banning birth tourism, despite a recent Supreme Court ruling against his previous attempt to end the policy.
• The orders target children born in the US to parents involved with foreign terrorist groups, foreign government employees, fraudsters, or residents of US territories where citizenship is not federally granted.
• Trump and his administration argue that birth tourism allows foreign nationals to exploit US citizenship benefits, claiming hundreds of thousands of such births occur annually, though independent data estimates are significantly lower.
• Legal experts note that while the president can restrict entry for birth tourism purposes, he likely lacks authority to revoke citizenship for children born on US soil, a constitutional issue affirmed by the Supreme Court's recent decision.
• Trump criticized the Supreme Court's ruling as unfair and vowed to pursue alternative methods to limit birthright citizenship, framing the executive orders as a new approach to the issue.