Trump Tries a Narrower Route Back Into Birthright Citizenship.

President Trump signed two immigration actions after the Supreme Court rejected his earlier order denying citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who were unlawfully or temporarily present. The new citizenship action is narrower, targeting specific categories including children linked to foreign embassies or organizations, “alien enemies,” and citizenship allegedly obtained through fraud. A companion order intensifies action against so-called birth tourism. The stakes are larger than the narrower language: the administration is testing how much of the citizenship boundary a president can redraw without Congress.

After the Supreme Court struck down his broad attempt to limit birthright citizenship, President Trump signed narrower immigration actions aimed at specific categories and “birth tourism”—reopening a constitutional fight the Court had just addressed.