Trump issues new executive orders aimed at birthright citizenship

Washington — President Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders in his latest effort to refuse citizenship to some children born in the United States, after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship. "We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright, it was close," Mr. Trump said in an Oval Office signing on Thursday. "But a very, very unfortunate decision. So we're making adjustments."One order the president signed Thursday targets commercial "birth tourism," White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said, while the other expands the definitions of people ineligible for birthright citizenship, such as children of foreign citizens who lobby on behalf of foreign governments. Trump would be signing the orders. Trump said Thursday. "This was for the babies of slaves.".

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