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Trump Signs Orders to Curb Birthright Citizenship, Target Birth Tourism

The new orders came after the Supreme Court in June overturned a bid by Trump to restrict birthright citizenship on the grounds it violated the 14th Amendment.
Trump Signs Orders to Curb Birthright Citizenship, Target Birth Tourism
President Donald Trump (C) speaks as White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller (L) and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on Aug. 6, 2026. Alex Wong/Getty Images
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President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that will restrict automatic citizenship to ​children born in the United States because of commercial birth tourism and several other factors.

The Trump administration will ban birth tourism, the practice of traveling to the United States on a tourist visa with the intention to have a child that is given automatic U.S. citizenship.

Trump called it “a big deal” and said birthright citizenship has been made into a joke during the signing ceremony.

This is a developing story and will be updated.