Trump’s birthright citizenship attack the latest effort in obsessive campaign
Summary
President Donald Trump issued two executive orders aiming to limit birthright citizenship, which currently grants automatic US citizenship to most babies born in the country. These orders target children born to non-citizens and seek to stop "birth tourism," but legal experts and recent court rulings have upheld the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.Key Facts
- Birthright citizenship is protected by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution and was recently confirmed by the Supreme Court.
- President Trump’s executive orders try to make some children born in the US ineligible for automatic citizenship.
- Trump claims "birth tourism" involves hundreds of thousands of births annually, but independent data shows numbers closer to 9,600–26,000.
- Trump has made ending birthright citizenship a campaign goal since 2015, calling it a problem linked to undocumented immigrants.
- Legal experts largely disagree that the President can end birthright citizenship by executive order alone.
- John Eastman, a legal scholar, supports Trump's view and argued that some children born to non-citizens should not be US citizens.
- Trump has made false claims about US citizenship rules, including that the US is the only country granting citizenship by birth and misrepresented Kamala Harris's citizenship status.
- The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s previous order on this issue in June 2023, maintaining the birthright citizenship protections.
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