Trump again tries to restrict birthright citizenship after Supreme Court ruling
Will Weissert and Rebecca Santana, Associated Press
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced “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,” according to the Associated Press. “The president said he was signing two executive actions on immigration, including one limiting the number of people eligible for U.S. citizenship after being born in the United States, while another focused on stopping people from coming to the U.S. to give birth.” The new order on birthright citizenship, released on Thursday evening, is “narrower in scope than the previous one shot down by the Supreme Court and appear[s] to focus on restricting automatic citizenship to specific categories of people, including children born to adults with connections to foreign embassies or organizations as well as anyone considered an ‘alien enemy’ of the United States. It also aim[s] to restrict birthright citizenship to anyone whose parents ‘engaged in fraudulent activity to obtain citizenship.’” The second order “seeks to curb what Trump called ‘birth tourism’ by increasing restrictions on visitors to the U.S. who want to obtain visas to give birth while in the country.”
