On August 6, 2026, President Trump signed two executive orders on birthright citizenship: one bars federal agencies from issuing citizenship documents to children born in four defined categories, the other targets ‘birth tourism’ — entering the U.S. to give birth. But blocking that travel at the visa stage has been possible since a 2020 State Department rule, and denying citizenship to U.S.-born children was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court just weeks earlier, in June 2026. The genuinely new question: can an exception to the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright rule — based on what a child’s parents did — be created by executive order? From the 1868 Citizenship Clause and Wong Kim Ark to the estimates that differ by a factor of ten, together with how Reddit reacted.
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