Donald Trump On Thursday, he signed two executive orders aimed at limiting access to citizenship by birth and banning "birth tourism." These measures come just over a month after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his first attempt to do so.
The White House announced Thursday the signing of two new executive orders by Donald Trump, presented as tools to restrict eligibility for birthright citizenship and put an end to the phenomenon known as "birth tourism," which consists of coming to give birth on American soil in order to obtain American citizenship for one's child.
These decrees come amid ongoing legal tension surrounding a right guaranteed by the US Constitution. Just over a month ago, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's initial attempt to restrict this constitutional principle.
Birthright citizenship, enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, automatically grants American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. Any restriction to this principle therefore faces a major constitutional obstacle, as the Supreme Court had already indicated in its initial rejection.
The precise outlines of the two new decrees and the legal mechanisms chosen by the administration to circumvent this obstacle have not yet been publicly detailed.
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