President Donald Trump has signed two executive actions aimed at limiting birthright citizenship and curbing what he termed ‘birth tourism’. The first executive order restricts automatic citizenship to specific categories of people, including children born to adults with connections to foreign embassies or organizations, as well as anyone considered an ‘alien enemy’ of the United States. It also aims to restrict birthright citizenship to anyone whose parents ‘engaged in fraudulent activity to obtain citizenship’.

Details of the Executive Actions

A second order seeks to curb ‘birth tourism’ by increasing restrictions on visitors to the U.S. who want to obtain visas to give birth while in the country. Trump said he thought his latest actions would be constitutional, despite his previous efforts being rejected by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had struck down Trump’s previous order by a 6-3 vote, upholding a broad conception of birthright citizenship.

Original reporting: NBC4 Los Angeles — read the source article.