Trump Signs New Executive Orders Curbing Birthright Citizenship and Birth Tourism. Here's what each side is saying, and what none of them are telling you.
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📰 THE FULL STORY
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday that restrict automatic citizenship. One order targets birth tourism, and the other expands the categories of people whose children are ineligible for birthright citizenship. According to Stephen Miller, the expanded ineligibility order covers alien enemies, members of foreign terrorist organizations, and people who lobby or act on behalf of foreign governments.
The Washington Examiner reported that the orders also deny birthright citizenship to children of some foreign diplomats and children of mothers who expressly and deceptively enter the United States to give birth. One order seeks to limit the use of surrogate mothers for this purpose. Miller described the second order as a ban on birth tourism, though CNN noted that U.S. law already bans obtaining a visa for the primary purpose of citizenship by birth.
Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump said, "They've taken birthright citizenship and they've made a joke out of it," and called the current rules "very unfair." He described the Supreme Court's June 30 decision striking down his prior executive order as "very unfortunate," and said he thought his latest actions would be constitutional.
The orders follow the Supreme Court's rejection of Trump's earlier, broader effort. NPR reported that the Court struck down that previous order by a 6-3 vote in June, rejecting his attempt to declare children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily as not American citizens. CNN reported that Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Neil Gorsuch, dissented, arguing the ruling recognized a constitutional right to citizenship for children of foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.
Miller said the administration is expanding the definitions of people ineligible for birthright citizenship under section 215A of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and he denied that the orders run afoul of the Supreme Court's opinions.
⬅️ HOW THE LEFT COVERS IT
Left coverage foregrounds that these orders are a renewed attempt after a judicial defeat, noting the earlier order was rejected on June 30 citing the 14th Amendment and that the new orders appear more limited than the last. CNN emphasizes legal detail, pointing out that US law already bans obtaining a visa for the primary purpose of citizenship by birth, undercutting the novelty of the birth tourism order. It also highlights the dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Neil Gorsuch, framing the constitutional stakes. The takeaway pushed is that this is a workaround to a court that already blocked Trump, with the administration's own framing relayed through Stephen Mi
