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Reason
Ilya Somin

Trump Issues Another Unconstitutional Executive Order Targeting Birthright Citizenship

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In Trump v. Barbara, issued in June, the Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump's executive order denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States, and those born to non-citizen parents here on temporary visas. Today, Trump issued another executive order seeking to narrow birthright citzenship, one that is also unconstitutional, even though the groups affected are much smaller than those targeted by the earlier order.

Today's order denies birthright citizenship to four categories of children:

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