Published August 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET · Updated August 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM ET
President Trump signs executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and birth tourism
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President Trump signed executive orders imposing new limits on birthright citizenship and targeting birth tourism. The orders were signed following a Supreme Court setback on the issue.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Trump v. Barbara held that children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or only temporarily present are citizens at birth under the Citizenship Clause, and invalidated Executive Order 14160. It reaffirmed United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which held that a child born on U.S. soil to foreign subjects with permanent domicile is a citizen at birth. New executive orders limiting birthright citizenship face the same constitutional barrier.
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.
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.
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