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Trump's second push on birthright citizenship tests whether fraud is a constitutional workaround

8/6/2026

Two executive orders headed for President Trump's signature Thursday would deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States through the commercial birth-tourism industry.

The administration frames this as a permissible fraud exception to the 14th Amendment.

The risk is that courts, fresh off blocking Trump's broader Inauguration Day citizenship order on June 30, find this second attempt equally exposed.

What the orders target The first order covers four categories of births.

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