President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that will restrict automatic citizenship to children born in the United States because of commercial birth tourism and several other factors.
One of the measures bans birth tourism, the practice of traveling to the United States on a tourist visa with the intention to have a child that is given automatic U.S. citizenship.
Trump called it “a big deal” and said during the signing ceremony that birthright citizenship has been made into a joke.
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 struck down Trump’s executive order excluding children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors from automatic birthright citizenship.
Trump called the Supreme Court decision “very unfortunate” and said his administration was making adjustments.
“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
“It was close, but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair.”
As Tom Gantert reports for The Epoch Times, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller said the 14th Amendment was passed right after the Civil War to ensure the children of slaves would be citizens.
“It had no other meaning and purpose other than that,” Miller said during the press conference.
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