The "birth tourism" Trump wants to cut: what the new order says

American citizenship returned to the center of the political debate. President Donald Trump issued new executive orders this week aimed at ending the so-called “birth tourism” in the United States, the practice of traveling to the country to give birth and obtain citizenship by birth for children.

What the phenomenon is

“Birth tourism” consists of pregnant women from other countries traveling to the US so their children are born on American soil and obtain citizenship by birthright, enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.

The legal dispute

The executive orders clash with a long constitutional interpretation: the amendment establishes that every person born on US territory is a citizen. Legal experts anticipate lawsuits that could reach the Supreme Court, while the migrant community, especially Latino, closely follows the developments.

The key figure

The Fourteenth Amendment. The constitutional pillar the new executive orders try to reinterpret.