By The Epoch Times | Created at 2026-08-06 21:16:52 | Updated at 2026-08-06 21:49:40
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President Donald Trump (C) speaks as White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller (L) and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on Aug. 6, 2026. Alex Wong/Getty Images
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.
The Trump administration will ban 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 birthright citizenship has been made into a joke during the signing ceremony.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
