Trump Seeks to Restrict Birthright Citizenship With New Orders
Cracking down on ‘birth tourism’
To enforce the “birth tourism” order, Trump said Thursday there will be “very big crackdowns.” The President claimed certain individuals were either “buying their way in” the U.S. or “building businesses” off the country’s birthright citizenship law.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said “birth tourism” has been a problem for decades. “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, but 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,” Miller said at the signing ceremony.
No official figures tally “birth tourism.” Government data show fewer than 10,000 births in the U.S. to mothers with foreign addresses in 2024, but an April 2026 article by D.C.-based think tank Migration Policy Institute says that census-based estimates put “birth tourism” at 22,000 to 26,000 babies born annually in the country.
