Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House. (Photo: AP)One month after the Supreme Court struck down his first try to limit birthright citizenship, Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday. The orders aim to stop US citizenship for children born in the US to “birth tourists”.The orders have not been made public yet. They appear to widen the list of children the White House says do not qualify for birthright citizenship. They also try to stop “birth tourism”, a practice Trump said on Thursday is used by “hundreds of thousands” of people.Story continues below this adThat number looks too high. The Migration Policy Institute says the top estimate from census data puts birth tourism at 22,000 to 26,000 babies born on US soil each year. Government data show only 9,600 births to mothers with foreign addresses in 2024.It is worth noting that Trump’s own father, Fred Trump, was born a US citizen in 1905. His mother was not a citizen and had come from Germany six months pregnant. Trump’s mother, Mary Anne, was born in Scotland. She gave birth to her first two children, the president’s older siblings, in the US before she became a US citizen herself.Follow The Indian Express Global Desk for live coverage of the day’s top world news.Live UpdatesAug 7, 2026 05:03 AM ISTACLU says Trump's new birthright citizenship orders are doomed to fail in courtThe American Civil Liberties Union has hit out at Donald Trump's new executive orders, which once again try to limit birthright citizenship. The move comes just five weeks after the US Supreme Court struck down a similar order Trump issued last year.In a statement, the ACLU called the president's latest move an attempt to work around the Supreme Court's ruling. The rights group said the new orders will not hold up if challenged in court.Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said the top court had already settled the matter and that birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Constitution, adding that no order from the president can change what the Constitution means. He said any order that tries to rewrite the rule on birthright citizenship will face the same outcome as the last one.The ACLU's response follows Trump signing two executive orders on Thursday. One order widens the list of children the White House says do not qualify for automatic citizenship. The other targets so-called "birth tourism", the practice of travelling to the US just to give birth so a child gains citizenship. Trump's first attempt to limit birthright citizenship, signed on his first day in office last year, was struck down by the Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling in June. Legal experts expect the new orders to face fresh court challenges on similar grounds.Aug 7, 2026 04:59 AM ISTTrump signs orders to limit US birthright citizenship, despite Supreme Court rulingA month after the US Supreme Court struck down his first bid to limit birthright citizenship under the constitution, Donald Trump signed fresh executive orders on Thursday. The orders seek to deny US citizenship to children born on American soil to "birth tourists".What the orders sayThe orders have not been made public yet. They appear to widen the categories of children the White House sees as ineligible for birthright citizenship, and aim to ban "birth tourism" outright. Trump claimed on Thursday that the practice is used by "hundreds of thousands" of people.Numbers don't add upThat figure looks far too high. The Migration Policy Institute says the highest census-based estimate puts birth tourism at 22,000 to 26,000 babies born on US soil each year. Government data show a much smaller number just 9,600 births to mothers with foreign addresses in 2024.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© IE Online Media Services Pvt LtdTags:India US