Trump renews birthright citizenship push after Supreme Court setback

The Story in Brief

US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders targeting birth tourism and seeking to restrict birthright citizenship, weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier directive on June 30. One order targets people involved in commercial birth tourism, while the other lists categories of children who could be denied citizenship documents, including those whose parents are foreign government employees or members of terrorist groups.

The Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to people born or naturalised in the US. Immigration attorney Cyrus Mehta called the new measures unconstitutional, while the American Civil Liberties Union said they would meet the same fate as Trump’s previous order. The Migration Policy Institute estimates 22,000 to 26,000 birth-tourism births annually, compared with 9,600 births to mothers with foreign addresses recorded in 2024.

The Indian Opinion

Claims that birth tourism is a vast assault on America’s welfare system rely on rhetoric more than scale. At the same time, dismissing concerns about organised commercial arrangements would avoid a real enforcement issue. The harder question is whether executive orders can carve out exceptions from a constitutional guarantee after the Supreme Court’s ruling. The next test will be whether courts reject the new orders, and how they interpret the phrase “commercial transaction”.

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