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Trump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenship

Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders that the White House said aims to restrict eligibility for birthright citizenship and ban “birth tourism”.

The ‌orders come just over a month after the United States supreme court rejected Trump’s first attempt to restrict the guarantee of birthright citizenship enshrined in the US constitution.
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Trump has long sought to dismantle the principle of birthright citizenship, making a top priority of his second-term immigration crackdown.

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