US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders seeking to restrict birthright citizenship, weeks after the Supreme Court rejected his earlier attempt to end the constitutional right.
The new measures target both the eligibility of some children born in the US for automatic citizenship and the practice known as birth tourism.
Trump signed the orders on Thursday, with one expanding the categories of non-citizen parents whose children would not automatically qualify for US citizenship.
Under the order, the restriction would apply where both parents are non-citizens and one of them is a member of a foreign terrorist organisation, an employee of a foreign government, has attem...
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Trump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenship
Source: Sun News Online
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