President Donald Trump signs two new executive orders aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, making another attempt after the U.S. Supreme Court in June rejected an earlier Trump order. Multiple outlets report that the Supreme Court held that birthright citizenship is protected under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment for people born in the United States who are subject to its jurisdiction. Trump’s new actions focus on what he describes as “birth tourism” and the eligibility of some children born in the country for automatic citizenship. Several sources say the orders direct officials to deny visas or limit automatic citizenship where entry is connected to the intent to give birth. CBS News reports Trump signs executive orders targeting “birth tourism” and automatic citizenship eligibility, while Fox News says Trump orders visa denials and calls for “very big crackdowns.” Jamaica Observer and other reports also describe the administration’s rationale that some people enter under temporary status or for the primary purpose of giving birth. One source notes the administration also raises eligibility limits for certain other categories of people tied to foreign governments and foreign terrorist organizations. NBC News includes fact-checking of the president’s related claims.
Trump signs new executive orders targeting “birth tourism” after Supreme Court birthright ruling
President Donald Trump signs two new executive orders aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, making another attempt after the U.S. Supreme Court in June rejected an earlier Trump order. Multiple ou...
- The new executive orders are issued after the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling upholding constitutional birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
- Trump says the orders target “birth tourism,” describing people who enter the U.S. primarily to give birth.
- Reporting indicates the orders aim to change automatic citizenship eligibility and involve measures related to visa eligibility/denials.
- One described basis for the prior and new efforts is the administration’s argument about whether people are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.
- The Supreme Court’s June decision rejects Trump’s earlier attempt to restrict birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents present illegally or on temporary visas.
Limiting birthright citizenship has been one of the top priorities in the Republican president's crackdown on immigration.
37 minutes from nowU.S. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday in a new but narrower attempt to curtail birthright citizenship, renewing his challenge to a provision of the…
36 minutes agoUS President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday seeking to narrow birthright citizenship and intensify a crackdown on “birth tourism”, making a new attempt to restrict automatic citizenship after his original policy was rejected by the Supreme Court. Trump announced the measures unexpectedly during a White House event, describing the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling as “very unfortunate” and arguing that wealthy foreigners had built businesses around securing US citizenship for...
56 minutes agoPresident Donald Trump said Thursday that he is once more trying to limit the number of people who are born in the country who can become American citizens, in a sign that even after his first attempt at limiting birthright citizenship was rejected by the Supreme Court, he's ready to try again.
57 minutes agoWASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—United States (US) President Donald Trump on Thursday made another attempt to curb birthright citizenship, signing an order targeting those who he said enter the country under the guise of tourism while actually intending to give birth. "They've taken birthright citizenship and they've made a joke out of it," Trump told journalists in the Oval Office. The US Supreme Court struck down his previous effort to restrict the constitutionally granted right in a late June ruling that Trump described as "very unfortunate." "We're making adjustments because it's very unfair," he said. Stephen Miller, one of Trump's closest advisors, said the order also aims to deny birthright citizenship to others, including children of members of "foreign terrorist organizations" as well as "large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments." The move "ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly (would) be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits," Miller said. The president signed another executive order last year decreeing that children born to parents in the United States illegally or on temporary visas would not automatically become US citizens. - Anti-immigration agenda - Lower courts blocked that move, ruling that under the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, nearly everyone born on US soil is an American citizen. The Supreme Court agreed in a majority opinion penned by Chief Justice John Roberts that was joined by two other conservative-leaning justices and the three liberal-leaning justices. The 14th Amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." It does not apply to those not subject to US jurisdiction -- the children of foreign diplomats, for example -- and under US law, visas can already be denied if a consular officer believes the applicant is traveling to the country for the primary purpose of giving birth. The Trump administration unsuccessfully argued that the 14th Amendment, passed in the wake of the 1861-1865 Civil War, addresses citizenship rights of former slaves and not the children of undocumented migrants or visitors. Trump's previous executive order was premised on the notion that anyone in the United States illegally, or on a visa, is not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the country and therefore excluded from automatic citizenship. The president's efforts to curb birthright citizenship are part of his wider campaign to limit immigration, which includes expelling millions of undocumented migrants and removing deportation protections from nationals of more than a dozen countries.
57 minutes agoAn earlier effort by Mr Trump to roll back birthright citizenship was rejected by the US Supreme Court in June, prompting him to call upon Congress to act on what has been one of the top priorities for his administration.
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