Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders that the White House said aims to restrict eligibility for birthright citizenship and ban “birth tourism”.
The orders come just over a month after the United States supreme court rejected Trump’s first attempt to restrict the guarantee of birthright citizenship enshrined in the US constitution.
Trump has long sought to dismantle the principle of birthright citizenship, making a top priority of his second-term immigration crackdown.
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The orders signed on Thursday expand the definitions of children the White House deems ineligible for birthright citizenship and seek to ban “birth tourism”, which the president told reporters on Thursday is practiced by hundreds of thousands of people.
There According to the Migration Policy Institute, the highest census-based estimate “puts birth tourism at 22,000 to 26,000 babies born annually on US soil, although government data show just 9,600 births to mothers with foreign addresses in 2024”.
Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was born a US citizen to a non-citizen mother who arrived in New York five months pregnant.
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