Trump Signs Orders Banning Birth Tourism, Expanding Who Can’t Get Birthright Citizenship

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President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that shut down birth tourism and broaden who doesn’t qualify for birthright citizenship — calling out a Supreme Court decision he said protects a practice never intended for today’s abuses.

“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright. It was close, but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair,” Trump said.

“This was done for a different reason. This was done right after the Civil War. This was for the babies of slaves, and what’s happening now? People are building businesses around it.”

The orders come after the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Trump v. Barbara in June — a narrow decision that said birthright citizenship is constitutional but left the door open for executive action on who qualifies.

“People come here pretending to be a tourist, pretending to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland, they want to go visit a monument or go to a national park, but the real reason they’re here is to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen, leave our country, and then have a U.S. citizen child.”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said the birth tourism ban uses presidential authority under Section 215A of the Immigration and Nationality Act — ending a practice people have talked about stopping “not only for years but for decades.”

“It gives them access under this broken system to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth, and all the other rights and privileges that belong solely to Americans,” Miller said. “So that practice of birth tourism is, as of the signing of this order, hereby banned.”

Miller called this one of the most important actions Trump has ever taken on immigration — “in the top three in terms of importance because it ends what has been one of the gravest and most egregious abuses of the American system, and it keeps American citizenship sacred.”

The first executive order identifies specific categories of children of aliens not entitled to birthright citizenship — consistent with historical exceptions the Supreme Court recognized in Barbara.

“That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations, and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments,” Miller said.

“And so, with taking this action, it ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly would be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits.”

The second order delegates presidential authorities to the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security and directs them to halt birth tourism.

No one in the world is allowed to obtain a visa for the fraudulent purpose of giving birth on U.S. soil, Miller said.

Trump also signed a proclamation establishing tariffs on polysilicon and polysilicon derivatives to protect American manufacturers from overseas dumping.

“This is a series of trade and tariff actions under Section 232, intended to ensure that domestic polysilicon manufacturing is properly supported and protected from overseas dumping and offshore threats,” White House staff secretary Will Scharf said.

Polysilicon is critical to making silicon wafers found in chips essential to artificial intelligence, including phones. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Trump’s policies have brought 50 percent of production into America, but the supply chain needs to follow.

“We’re making the products here, but we need the supply chain here,” Lutnick said.

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