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Trump’s birthright citizenship obsession

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11.08.2026

On June 30, the Supreme Court handed President Trump a stinging defeat when it struck down his effort to end birthright citizenship. As Chief Justice John Roberts put it, “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community.” 

Trump did not take his Supreme Court defeat well. He took to Truth Social, where he said the decision was “too bad for our Country.” 

On Thursday, he issued two new Executive Orders that show his disdain for the court’s decision and his determination to end birthright citizenship. The courts should make short shrift of that effort. 

One of his Executive Orders targeted so-called “birth tourism.” 

He called out “thriving industries around the world that profit by enabling the evasion of American immigration laws to obtain citizenship and other immigration benefits for foreign visitors, and the exploitation of the women who travel here for........

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