US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders in a second attempt to scale back American birthright citizenship.
The move comes weeks after the Supreme Court shot down his previous attempt to eliminate the right.
The executive orders, signed on Thursday, include one that expands the existing definitions of non-citizens whose children are not eligible for birthright citizenship while the second order bans what the Trump administration calls “birth tourism” — the practice of pregnant mothers going to the US using non-immigrant visas to give birth so that their babies will be citizens.
The first order restricts birthright citizenship for children born in the US even to legal foreign residents, including diplomats and employees of international organisations.
The order could also affect people born in US territories, should congress enact a proposed law to end automatic citizenship there. Birthright citizenship for people born in
