U.S. Court Blocks Trump’s Birth Tourism Restrictions, Again Halting Effort to Narrow Birthright Citizenship

A U.S. federal court has put the brakes on Donald Trump’s latest attempt to restrict birthright citizenship, blocking an executive order targeting so-called birth tourism.

Deborah Boardman, a federal judge in Maryland, issued an injunction suspending enforcement of the order in a lawsuit brought by immigrant-rights groups. She said the Supreme Court had already ruled that the children concerned are “citizens at birth,” and found the new order likely unconstitutional.

Trump issued his first birthright-citizenship order on his first day in office last January. It sought to deny citizenship to children born in the United States when both parents were undocumented or temporary immigrants and neither was a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. On June 30, the Supreme Court ruled that the measure conflicted with the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.

Trump responded by issuing two narrower executive orders on the sixth of last month. The court has now blocked one of those measures as well.

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The Supreme Court has already ruled that these children are citizens at birth.