Published August 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM ET · Updated August 8, 2026 at 8:06 AM ET
Birth tourism is only the start of a bigger border problem
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President Donald Trump has issued new orders to end birth tourism and ban citizenship for babies born to tourists. This action follows a recent Supreme Court decision regarding birthright citizenship.
Patriot Watch first flagged this story 1 d ago, when Washington Times reported it. Coverage has since grown to 6 independent outlets, including 1 wire/mainstream feed. The most recent report came 2 hr ago from The Blaze.
⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Trump v. Barbara held that children born in the United States to parents who are lawfully but temporarily present are citizens at birth under the Citizenship Clause, and it struck down the executive order denying that status, reaffirming United States v. Wong Kim Ark. Orders targeting babies born to tourists collide directly with that holding.
Trump v. Barbara 609 U.S. ___ (2026) (slip opinion; U.S. Reports page not yet assigned)
Vote: 6-3 on invalidity of EO 14160; 5-4 on the Fourteenth Amendment ground · Opinion: Chief Justice John Roberts
Children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully present or lawfully but temporarily present are born 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Citizenship Clause. Executive Order 14160 is invalid. Roberts's opinion treated 'jurisdiction' as satisfied by amenability to U.S. law, reaffirmed Wong Kim Ark as declaratory of the common-law rule inherited from Calvin's Case, and grounded the Clause in the repudiation of Dred Scott.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
Vote: 6-2 (Justice McKenna took no part) · Opinion: Justice Horace Gray
A child born in the United States to parents of Chinese descent who, at the time of his birth, were subjects of the Emperor of China but had a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, were carrying on business here, and were not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity of the Chinese government, becomes at birth a citizen of the United States under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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