US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders aimed at narrowing birthright citizenship and intensifying a crackdown on so-called 'birth tourism', in a fresh attempt to restrict automatic citizenship after the Supreme Court rejected his earlier policy.
The orders were announced unexpectedly on Thursday during a White House event, according to SCMP. Trump described the Supreme Court's June 30 ruling as 'very unfortunate' and argued that wealthy foreigners had built businesses around securing US citizenship for their children.
The exact provisions of the orders were not detailed in the reports, but they represent the latest effort by the president to limit who is eligible for birthright citizenship, a right rooted in the US Constitution. The Supreme Court had previously ruled against his push to reinterpret that constitutional guarantee.