US president makes narrower second attempt to restrict automatic citizenship after Supreme Court rejected his original policy
4-MIN READ4-MIN1 ListenTeresa Elena Frontadoin WashingtonPublished: 5:41am, 7 Aug 2026Updated: 5:45am, 7 Aug 2026US President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday seeking to narrow birthright citizenship and intensify a crackdown on “birth tourism”, making a new attempt to restrict automatic citizenship after his original policy was rejected by the Supreme Court.
“They’re buying their way in, and we’re not going to let it happen,” Trump said.
The first order directs federal agencies not to recognise the US citizenship of certain US-born children when neither parent is an American citizen.
It applies when either parent is classified as an “alien enemy”, a category the order defines to include members of designated foreign terrorist organisations and individuals designated as global terrorists.
