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On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on birthright citizenship, just over a month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a previous order he made on the issue was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The new orders are narrower than that previous one, which was signed in the first week of his second term in office. Several legal experts have already opined that the new orders also likely violate the 14th Amendment\u2019s birthright citizenship clause, which grants citizenship rights to nearly every child born in the U.S., similar to how most nations in the Western Hemisphere operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright, it was close,\u201d Trump complained to reporters on Thursday regarding the high court\u2019s decision against his first order. \u201cSo we\u2019re making adjustments.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first order, titled \u201cEnding Birth Tourism,\u201d focuses on Trump\u2019s claim that \u201cbirth tourism operators use deceptive advertisements and inducements to entice foreign nationals to travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is the \u201cpolicy of the United States to promote the integrity of its immigration system, to ensure that nonimmigrant visa classifications are used only for their lawful and intended purposes, and to prevent the exploitation of those classifications by persons engaging in birth tourism,\u201d the order reads, adding:<\/p>\n

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Pursuant to section 301 of title 3, United States Code, the authority granted to the President under section 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1185(a), is hereby delegated to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to the extent necessary to implement this order.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That chapter of U.S. code makes no mention of \u201cbirth tourism\u201d or any similar term. Instead, it allows for the implementation of \u201creasonable rules\u201d and orders from the president to use existing law to restrict immigration.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that the administration is attempting to use the vagueness of that law, as well as the claims of the executive order itself, to allow cabinet officials to make new rules regarding \u201cbirth tourism\u201d without congressional input.<\/p>\n

Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff and architect of many of Trump\u2019s draconian immigration policies, said: \u201cThe president is using his authority as commander in chief to sign first an executive order using the new rule the Supreme Court issued to expand the definitions of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fearmongering from Trump administration officials about \u201cbirth tourism\u201d feeds into the racist \u201cgreat replacement\u201d conspiracy theory that falsely claims that immigrants and nonwhite people are part of a conspiracy to \u201creplace\u201d white people.<\/p>\n

There are no official government statistics regarding the extent of so-called \u201cbirth tourism\u201d in the U.S. Even during oral arguments at the Supreme Court, lawyers for the Trump administration couldn\u2019t provide a figure, although Trump told reporters on Thursday that there were \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of such births each year.<\/p>\n

One estimate on birth tourism \u2014 which is highly contested \u2014 suggests that around 26,000 children are born through the supposed practice annually in the U.S. If accurate, that would amount to fewer than 1 percent of all births in the country. Another estimate puts the figure at fewer than 0.3 percent of all births in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s second executive order, titled \u201cContinuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,\u201d reiterates existing constitutional rules regarding who can be denied citizenship, such as children born of \u201calien enemies\u201d or those of foreign dignitaries. However, it also allows children to be denied birthright citizenship if either of their parents is a \u201cmember of a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those changes could allow a sitting president to label any number of groups as \u201cterrorists\u201d as a means to restrict immigration. It also disregards consideration of both <\/em>parents\u2019 status \u2014 if one parent is not a designated \u201cenemy\u201d of the U.S. but the other one is, their U.S.-born child would be denied citizenship rights under this order, which goes against the current interpretation of the law.<\/p>\n

The reinterpretation of the amendment\u2019s guidelines could have severe repercussions for asylum seekers. For example, a pregnant mother coming to the U.S. \u2014 perhaps attempting to escape the father of her child \u2014 could be restricted entry under this order if the U.S. claims that the father is a member of a supposed terrorist group.<\/p>\n

The new orders will undoubtedly be challenged, and could make their way to the Supreme Court, just as Trump\u2019s first failed executive order on birthright citizenship did.<\/p>\n

In June, that order was found unconstitutional by five of the nine justices of the court, and in violation of federal statute by a sixth justice. Several legal experts say these new orders will similarly be struck down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new order is far less sweeping than the original, but like the first order, seemingly violates the Constitution,\u201d Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, wrote in a post on X. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis order expands the exception that applies to those NOT subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to people who ARE subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,\u201d said Jonathon Booth, associate law professor at Colorado University-Boulder. \u201cIt\u2019s flatly unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling earlier this summer \u201cmatters enormously in evaluating this new order,\u201d the immigration law firm of Reddy Neumann Brown PC said in an explainer on their website. \u201cThe government cannot escape the constitutional consequences of a Supreme Court decision simply by changing the mechanism it uses to reach the same result.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my very clear legal take: [Trump] cannot issue an executive order saying that children of birthright tourism \u2014 even if the mother violates immigration law to come to the United States \u2014 are not U.S. citizens,\u201d University of Virginia immigration law professor Amanda Frost told The Washington Post<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust five weeks ago, the Supreme Court made clear that birthright citizenship is not subject to a president\u2019s whims,\u201d said Deborah Fleischaker, senior advisor for Immigration Policy and Strategy at UnidosUS. \u201cIt is a constitutional guarantee that has stood for more \u200bthan 150 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s new orders \u201care nothing more than an attempt to get around that ruling,\u201d Fleischaker added.<\/p>\n

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