In the executive order “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” Pres. Donald Trump denied citizenship to persons born in the United States whose biological parents are not themselves U.S. citizens or legally permanent residents. In June 2026 the U.S. Supreme Court found the order to be unconstitutional under the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside”) and illegal under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
In August 2026 Trump issued two more executive orders aimed at restricting birthright citizenship: (1) “Continuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” which denied automatic citizenship to children born to foreign adults working in the United States for foreign governments or officially regarded as terrorists or “alien enemies,” and (2) “Ending Birth Tourism,” which prevented entry into the United States of foreign women attempting to give birth on American soil; the order also denied U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States whose foreign mothers had entered the country for just that purpose.