Trump launches new attempt to clamp down on birthright citizenship with ban on 'birth tourism'

US President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday in a new but narrower attempt to curtail birthright citizenship. Trump is once again challenging a provision of the U.S. Constitution even though the Supreme Court rejected his previous effort. Stephen Miller, at the signing ceremony in the Oval Office: "That practice of birth tourism is, as of the signing of this order, hereby banned." The Center for Immigration Studies, which supports lower levels of immigration, estimated in an analysis in 2020 that between 20,000 and 25,000 mothers came to the US for birth tourism in a year-long period between 2016 and 2017. There were 3.6 million births in the US in 2025. The Supreme Court had struck down as unconstitutional Trump's earlier executive order, which targeted a wide swath of immigrants in the country illegally or temporarily. The administration argues the new directive falls outside the purview of the Supreme Court ruling, as it seeks to reinterpret the narrow, historical exceptions to citizenship at birth and expand who is ineligible. Trump's new orders are likely to face legal challenge. The ACLU predicted it was doomed to fail in court.