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Trump moves to restrict US birthright citizenship with executive orders
Donald Trump has issued new executive orders aiming to restrict birthright citizenship and ban birth tourism in the United States.
Donald Trump has launched a fresh bid to limit birthright citizenship in the United States, signing new executive orders designed to restrict who is eligible for automatic citizenship at birth.
The executive orders aim to ban what is commonly referred to as birth tourism, according to reporting by wire agencies. They also seek to expand the existing definition of individuals whose children are not eligible to receive birthright citizenship.
The concept of birthright citizenship is enshrined in the US Constitution under the Fourteenth Amendment, which generally guarantees citizenship to anyone born on American soil. Trump has long targeted this provision, arguing that it serves as a magnet for undocumented immigration.
Specific details regarding how the administration plans to enforce these changes remain thin. It is not yet clear how the orders will define the expanded categories of ineligible parents, nor has the administration confirmed the exact timeline for implementing the new rules.
Legal scholars have previously suggested that any attempt to alter birthright citizenship through executive action, rather than through a constitutional amendment or congressional legislation, would face immediate and severe challenges in the federal courts. The text of the new orders has not yet been fully parsed by external legal experts, leaving the exact mechanism of the proposed restrictions unconfirmed.
The White House has not yet released a detailed framework explaining how immigration authorities will distinguish between regular travellers and those accused of engaging in birth tourism.
Observers are waiting to see how quickly civil rights groups and legal advocates file lawsuits to block the implementation of the orders.
This report draws on original reporting by Wire report.
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