Trump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenship
Summary
President Donald Trump signed two new executive orders aiming to limit who can receive birthright citizenship in the United States. These orders also target "birth tourism," where people travel to the U.S. to have babies who automatically gain citizenship.Key Facts
- President Trump signed two executive orders focused on birthright citizenship and birth tourism.
- The orders came after the Supreme Court rejected Trump's earlier attempt to limit birthright citizenship.
- Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the U.S. automatically becomes a citizen, based on the Constitution.
- The new orders expand which children can be denied birthright citizenship.
- They also seek to ban birth tourism, which involves foreign nationals traveling to the U.S. to give birth.
- Estimates of birth tourism births vary, from about 9,600 to as many as 26,000 babies born annually in the U.S. to foreign mothers.
- President Trump has made restricting birthright citizenship a main goal of his immigration policies during his second term.
- President Trump’s father was born a U.S. citizen, even though his mother was not a citizen when she arrived in the U.S.
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