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Trump Signs New Orders Targeting Birthright Citizenship

Trump Signs New Orders ToTargeting Curb Birthright Citizenship, Target Birth Tourism

Trump Signs New Orders Targeting Birthright Citizenship
Above: Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Aug. 6. Image credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin


Trump's new executive orders targeting birthright citizenship are flatly unconstitutional and no executive order can override the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court already made clear that children born on U.S. soil are citizens, full stop — and these orders don't change that. Expect courts to strike them down fast.

Birth tourism is a racket where wealthy foreign nationals game the system by hopping on a plane while pregnant just to score an American passport for their child. The 14th Amendment was never meant to reward that kind of calculated fraud on American taxpayers. Cracking down on it is common sense, not a constitutional crisis.


Metaculus Prediction

There's a 10% chance that any U.S. authority will refuse to recognize the citizenship of U.S.-born children of non-citizen parents for 90 days in 2028, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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