The President signed two new Executive Orders after the Supreme Court rejected his previous, broader attempt to restrict birthright citizenship.
After his defeat at the Supreme Court, President Trump unveiled executive orders with narrower restrictions on birthright citizenship. The move is expected to face legal challenges. NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez reports.
In another attempt to target birthright citizenship, President Trump signed two executive orders to limit who is eligible for birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court struck down Mr. Trump's first move to completely end birthright citizenship.
Orders come after supreme court rejected president’s first bid to restrict guarantee enshrined in US constitutionDonald Trump has made a second attempt to restrict the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, just weeks after the US supreme court rejected his initial, more sweeping bid to deny automatic citizenship to the children born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign residents.Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders that seek to broaden the categories of children ineligible for automatic US citizenship and ban so-called “birth tourism”. The directives are expected to face legal challenges. Continue reading...
The executive orders ban birth tourism and expand the existing definition of people whose children are not eligible for US birthright citizenship.