President Donald Trump has signed two executive actions on immigration, including one limiting the number of people eligible for U.S. citizenship after being born in the United States. The written executive order focuses on restricting 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.
Details of the Executive Actions
The order also aims to restrict birthright citizenship to anyone whose parents “engaged in fraudulent activity to obtain citizenship.” 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.
Trump said he thought his latest actions would be constitutional. This move comes after 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.
Original reporting: NBC Connecticut — read the source article.
