NewzUS President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order targeting what he described as "birth tourism," seeking to curb birthright citizenship by restricting entry for pregnant visitors intending to give birth in the United States. Trump said the move followed the Supreme Court's rejection of his earlier effort to limit the constitutional right. Trump said one will limit the number of people eligible for U.S.
citizenship after being born in the United States Additional details weren't provided, but Trump said he thought his latest actions would be constitutional.(Image credit: Alex Brandon) US President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday seeking to narrow birthright citizenship and intensify a crackdown on “birth tourism”, making a new attempt to restrict automatic citizenship after his original policy was rejected by the Supreme Court.
Trump announced the measures unexpectedly during a White House event, describing the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling as “very unfortunate” and arguing that wealthy foreigners had built businesses around securing US citizenship for... US president Donald Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship is part of his wider campaign to limit immigration. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday made another attempt to curb birthright citizenship, signing an order targeting those who he said enter the country under the guise of tourism while actually intending to give birth."They've taken birthright citizenship and they've made a joke out of it," Trump told journalists in the Oval Office.The US Supreme Court struck down his previous effort to restrict the constitutionally granted right in a late June ruling that Trump described as "very unfortunate"."We're making adjustments because it's very unfair," he said.The president signed an executive order last year decreeing that children born to parents in the US illegally or on temporary visas would not automatically become US citizens.Lower courts blocked the move, ruling that under the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, nearly everyone born on US soil is an American citizen.The Supreme Court agreed in a majority opinion penned by chief justice John Roberts that was joined by two other conservative-leaning justices and the three liberal-leaning justices.Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship is part of his wider campaign to limit immigration, which includes expelling millions of undocumented migrants and removing deportation protections from nationals of more than a dozen countries.The 14th Amendment states that "All persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."It does not apply to those not subject to US jurisdiction -- the children of foreign diplomats, for example -- and under US law, visas can already be denied if a consular officer believes the applicant is traveling to the country for the primary purpose of giving birth.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday 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. The president said he was signing two executive actions on immigration. He said one will limit the number of people eligible for U.S.
A 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. In June, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s previous efforts to declare that children born to people in the U.S.
illegally or temporarily aren’t American citizens, and upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship. On Trump’s first day in office of his second term, he signed an executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, which allows anyone born in the United States to automatically become an American citizen. Trump’s administration was immediately sued by opponents who said the executive order went against the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, which makes anyone born in the country a citizen, with very limited exceptions.
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