📰 Curated from Axios
📖 Read full article→
Exclusive: Trump targets birth tourism and citizenship in new executive orders - Axios
Entertainment and CultureBy Marc Caputo8/6/20261 min read
The measures are sure to be challenged in court as a violation of the 14th Amendment.
✨ Key Highlights
- President Trump is preparing new executive orders that target birth tourism and automatic citizenship, according to an exclusive report from Axios.
- The measures are widely expected to face legal challenges, as critics argue they conflict with the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship.
- The forthcoming actions follow an earlier, broader executive order Trump signed on Inauguration Day seeking to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents.
- On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected that broader executive order, marking a significant setback for the administration's efforts to restrict birthright citizenship.
- The new orders reflect a continued push by the administration to reshape U.S. citizenship policy despite the constitutional questions and prior judicial resistance.
- The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 shot down a broader executive order Trump signed on Inauguration Day to deny automatic citizenship to those born of noncitizens in the U.S.