President Donald Trump again is targeting the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship despite a recent Supreme Court ruling upholding the principle, announcing a pair of executive orders limiting who qualifies for automatic citizenship and cracking down on so-called "birth tourism."
Trump signed an order declaring certain individuals are ineligible for birthright citizenship, including "alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby an act on behalf of foreign governments," White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told reporters in the Oval Office.
The second order seeks to deny visas to individuals engaged in "birth tourism" and take other actions to curb
the practice, Miller said.
The full language of the executive orders has not yet been released as of publication time.
The Supreme Court overturned an earlier executive order from Trump seeking to limit birthright citizenship, ruling June 30 that the government couldn't deny citizenship to children who didn't have at least one parent with legal status. Trump's latest bid to curb birthright citizenship is almost certain to face a legal challenge.
"Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights − to freely participate in our political community," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. "The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land.' We keep that promise today."
Trump has targeted birthright citizenship as part of a sweeping, hardline immigration agenda centered around mass deportations. He campaigned on overturning the constitutional provision, attended Supreme Court oral arguments in the case and lashed out at the court when blocked his move to redefine citizenship.
"We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court… so we’re making adjustments," Trump said Aug. 6.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump again targets birthright citizenship despite Supreme Court loss
