Trump signs executive orders to limit birthright citizenship in the US

President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, shortly after the Supreme Court ruled against his previous attempt to reinterpret this constitutional right. The new orders focus on expanding exceptions for children of foreign diplomats and addressing “birth tourism,” where mothers travel to the U.S. to give birth. Trump’s earlier efforts were deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court, which upheld the broad protections of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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