Published August 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM ET · Updated August 10, 2026 at 6:06 AM ET
Trump administration cracks down on birth tourism despite a Supreme Court setback
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The Trump administration is pursuing new efforts to end birth tourism despite a Supreme Court setback. The administration is continuing its policy push against birth tourism following a Supreme Court ruling.
Patriot Watch first flagged this story 3 d ago, when White House reported it. Coverage has since grown to 3 independent outlets, including 1 wire/mainstream feed. The most recent report came 7 hr ago from American Thinker.
⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Trump v. Barbara held that children born in the United States to parents lawfully but temporarily present are citizens at birth under the Citizenship Clause and that Executive Order 14160 is invalid. Barbara reaffirmed United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which held a U.S.-born child of foreign nationals domiciled here is a citizen at birth. Birth tourism targets the exact category Barbara resolved.
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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