Published August 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET · Updated August 6, 2026 at 10:07 PM ET
Trump pledges a forceful crackdown on birth tourism.
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President Trump signed two executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and birth tourism. The orders seek to restrict birthright citizenship and curb the practice of birth tourism. Trump indicated that further forceful crackdowns on birth tourism will follow.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
United States v. Wong Kim Ark held that a child born on US soil to noncitizen parents domiciled here is a citizen at birth. Trump v. Barbara extended that to children of parents unlawfully or only temporarily present and invalidated the prior executive order. Any child born here remains a citizen regardless of parents status, so birth tourism crackdowns cannot strip citizenship from the US-born.
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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