Exclusive: Trump targets birth tourism and citizenship in new executive orders
Summary
President Trump plans to sign two executive orders to limit birthright citizenship in the U.S., targeting children born through birth tourism and children of some foreign diplomatic staff. These orders aim to restrict citizenship for future births in specific cases, but they could face legal challenges based on the 14th Amendment.Key Facts
- The executive orders will deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. via commercial birth tourism.
- Citizenship will also be denied to children born of certain foreign diplomatic staff and possibly those born in U.S. territories if laws change.
- The orders focus on four groups: children of foreign diplomatic workers, children of people labeled as enemy aliens or terrorists, children born in U.S. territories if Congress changes the law, and children born to mothers who enter the U.S. deceptively for birth tourism.
- The 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to almost everyone born in the U.S., but exceptions exist for diplomats and enemy armies.
- The government argues parents who lie to enter the U.S. for birth tourism commit fraud, which justifies these restrictions.
- A second order will direct officials to issue rules against birth tourism and related industries inside and outside the U.S.
- U.S. law already bans tourist visas granted solely for the purpose of obtaining citizenship for a child born in the U.S.
- The House Oversight Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee are investigating birth tourism and its potential security risks.
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