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New executive orders, targeting children born to foreign lobbyists and tourists, are certain to face legal challenges.<\/strong><\/p>

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller with President Donald Trump at the signing of the orders on Thursday. (Jim Watson\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump took another stab at restricting automatic citizenship for people born in the United States after the Supreme Court rejected his earlier attempt.<\/p>\n

In two executive orders signed Thursday, Trump reached for different legal maneuvers to test the limits of the 14th Amendment\u2019s guarantee of birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n

The first order said children would be ineligible if born to \u201calien enemies,\u201d members of foreign terrorist organizations, or foreign lobbyists. The second order said children of people who fraudulently request tourist visas for the purpose of giving birth in the U.S. would not become citizens.<\/p>\n

Trump harshly criticized the Supreme Court\u2019s June decision reaffirming that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil, including the children of undocumented immigrants, striking down his executive order from the first day of his second term.<\/p>\n

The new orders marked a fresh effort to overcome that setback and deliver on a campaign promise by expanding the categories of people who the administration argues fall outside the constitutional guarantee. Constitutional scholars broadly agree that the president lacks the authority to eliminate birthright citizenship unilaterally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a bad decision, very unfair decision,\u201d he told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. \u201cOur country suffers because of it, and we\u2019re ending it a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new orders were certain to face legal challenges, and if they survive, would affect far fewer people than the original. An estimated 15 million undocumented immigrants live in the U.S., while only a few thousand people are foreign lobbyists registered with the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

No significant <\/b>populations of U.S. residents are designated as alien enemies or foreign terrorists, making that provision largely symbolic. The administration faces ongoing litigation over whether it can deport alleged gang members by treating them as alien enemies.<\/p>\n

The second executive order draws on the president\u2019s authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act to control international travel, according to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who appeared with Trump at the signing.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople come here, pretend to be a tourist, pretend to be a visitor, say they want to go to Disneyland, they want to go visit a monument or go to a national park. But the real reason they\u2019re here is to have a child, to make that child automatic citizen, leave our country and then have a U.S. citizen child,\u201d said Miller, arguing that lying on a visa application amounts to fraud and invalidates the visa.<\/p>

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There is no official data on \u201cbirth tourism<\/a>.\u201d In 2024, fewer than 10,000 babies were born in the U.S. to people with foreign addresses, out of 3.6 million total live births, <\/b>according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A divided Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in June in one of the most closely watched cases of the recently concluded term. Writing for the 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the framers of the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, intended to extend citizenship to virtually all people born on U.S. soil with limited exceptions for the children of diplomats and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights \u2014 to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to \u2018every free-born person in this land,\u2019\u201d Roberts wrote. \u201cWe keep that promise today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration argued for a narrower reading of the amendment, saying its language did not apply to people who were here illegally or temporarily because they had not demonstrated the necessary political allegiance to the country.<\/p>\n

Amanda Frost, an immigration law professor at the University of Virginia, said significant parts of Trump\u2019s new orders appear largely unconstitutional and at odds with the Supreme Court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my very clear legal take: He cannot issue an executive order that saying that children of birthright tourism \u2014 even if the mother violates immigration law to come to the United States \u2014 are not U.S. citizens,\u201d Frost said.<\/p>\n

Likewise, David Bier, an immigration expert at the libertarian Cato Institute, said Trump cannot credibly argue that undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who are declared by his administration as \u201cenemies\u201d of the country are not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of the [Supreme Court] justices adopted the logic that illegal immigration is an invasion or any of those types of thing,\u201d Bier said \u201cNone of the conservatives used that line of argumentation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bier added that the president\u2019s efforts on birthright tourism are \u201cpretty obviously contrary to what the Supreme Court just ruled and are likely to get no further than the prior order did.\u201d<\/p>

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