Published July 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM ET · Updated July 23, 2026 at 12:55 AM ET
Texas targets birth tourism industry with new executive order
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Texas has issued a new executive order targeting the birth tourism industry. The order aims to address the practice of birth tourism within the state.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
United States v. Wong Kim Ark held that a child born on U.S. soil to foreign nationals domiciled here is a citizen at birth. Trump v. Barbara extended that to children of parents lawfully but only temporarily present, because they remain subject to U.S. law. Birth on American soil still confers citizenship regardless of parents' status, so Texas cannot undo that by executive order.
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.
Precedent facts from the PW Law Library — primary-source verified & independently audited
