Trump Talks About the Executive Orders for Birth Tourism and Birthright Citizenship
Discuss what we’re dealing with on birthright citizenship. We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright. It was close, but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments with executive orders because it’s very unfair. This was done for a different reason. This was done right after the Civil War. This was for the babies of slaves. What’s happening now, people are building businesses around it from wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship. That’s not the way it was supposed to work. It’s a disgrace. They’re buying their way in. We’re not going to let it happen.
Explanation of the 14th Amendment Birthright Citizenship After the Civil War
So today, the president Trump signed these two executive orders here relating to birthright citizenship and birth tourism. As the president mentioned, the 14th Amendment was passed exclusively in the aftermath of the Civil War so that to ensure that the children of slaves would be citizens. It had no other meaning and purpose outside of that. That’s been clear, obviously, since the day that it was passed. You can go back. You can read the congressional debates. This is not something that’s even seriously contested by anybody.
Details on First Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship
President Trump is using his authority as commander in chief to sign first an executive order using the new rule in the Supreme Court issued to expand the definitions of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship. That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations, and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments. So with taking executive orders action, it ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly would be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits.
Details on Second Executive Order on Birth Tourism
Trump second executive order that he’s taking, which is especially historic, is for the first time ever in American history to ban birth tourism. So I want you to really let that sink in. This has been something that people have talked about not only for years, but for decades. The idea that people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretending to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland, they want to go visit a monument or go to a national park. The real reason they’re here is to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen, leave our country, and then have a U.S. citizen child through birth tourism. It gives them access out of this broken system to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth, and all the other rights and privileges that belong solely to Americans. So that practice of birth tourism is, as of the signing of this order, hereby banned.
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER – CONTINUING TO PROTECT THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER – ENDING BIRTH TOURISM
