Trump’s birthright citizenship attack the latest effort in obsessive campaign

Donald Trump has issued a pair of executive orders targeting birthright citizenship, a constitutional right that the Supreme Court reaffirmed just five weeks ago. The orders attempt to broaden the categories of children who would be ineligible for automatic US citizenship and to ban so-called 'birth tourism'—a practice Trump claims is used by hundreds of thousands of people. The Guardian reports this marks the latest attempt in Trump's more than decade-long effort to undermine this constitutional guarantee.

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