{"id":30509,"date":"2026-08-07T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=30509"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:42:24","slug":"trump-to-sign-orders-on-birthright-citizenship-axios-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=30509","title":{"rendered":"Trump to sign orders on birthright citizenship, Axios reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign two executive orders on Thursday aimed at denying citizenship to \u200cchildren born in the United States because of commercial &#8220;birth tourism&#8221;, Axios \u200creported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump is also seeking to deny birthright citizenship for children born of some foreign \u200bdiplomatic staff in the U.S. and, potentially, U.S. territories in the future, according to Axios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump&#8217;s itinerary shows he has a &#8220;signing time&#8221; event at the Oval Office on Thursday, which had not begun as of 4:05 pm (2005 GMT), \u200cabout an hour and \u2060five minutes past the time slot in the official schedule released by the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Limiting birthright citizenship has been \u2060one of the top priorities in the Republican president&#8217;s crackdown on immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An earlier effort by Trump was rejected by the Supreme Court in June, \u200bprompting him \u200bto call upon Congress to act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No \u200bU.S. law outright bars birth \u200ctourism, but a federal regulation implemented in 2020 during Trump&#8217;s first term prohibits using temporary tourist and business visas for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a newborn. People who engage in birth tourism schemes could be prosecuted for fraud or other related crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There are no \u200cofficial figures tallying the number of \u200bforeigners who come to the U.S. for \u200bthe explicit purpose of giving \u200bbirth and obtaining citizenship for their children, or the \u200ccost to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Center for Immigration \u200bStudies, which supports \u200blower levels of immigration, estimated in an analysis in 2020 that between 20,000-25,000 mothers came to the U.S. for birth tourism in \u200ba year-long period between \u200c2016-2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were 3.6 million births in the U.S. in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u200bby Kristina Cooke, Ryan Patrick Jones and Ismail Shakil; editing \u200bby Michelle Nichols and David Ljunggren)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign two executive orders on Thursday aimed at denying citizenship to \u200cchildren born in the United States because of commercial &#8220;birth tourism&#8221;, Axios \u200creported. 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