President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders aimed at restricting birthright citizenship eligibility in the United States. The orders represent another attempt by the administration to limit automatic citizenship for children born on American soil, a practice sometimes referred to as “birth tourism.”
Birthright citizenship has long been a cornerstone of US immigration policy, granting automatic citizenship to virtually any child born within the country’s borders. The new executive orders seek to narrow the scope of who qualifies for this constitutional right.
This latest action follows a previous effort by Trump to curtail birthright citizenship protections, which the US Supreme Court blocked in June. The court’s decision had stalled the administration’s initial plans, but the newly signed orders represent a fresh approach to the same policy objective.
Originally reported by Aljazeera →
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