Trump issues two orders on US births
Reports have confirmed that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign two executive orders aimed at curbing the phenomenon of "birth tourism" in the United States, whereby foreigners take advantage of giving birth on U.S. soil to obtain American citizenship. Since 2020, there has been no explicit law fully criminalizing birth tourism, but current regulations primarily prohibit the use of temporary tourist and business visas for this purpose. Such plans may be misunderstood or prosecuted as fraud, and there are no official precise figures on the number of foreigners coming for childbirth or the costs borne by taxpayers. In 2016-2017, the Migration Studies Center estimated that between 20,000 and 25,000 foreign women visited the United States to engage in this practice, which resulted in 3.6 million births in 2025. Trump aims to prevent these children from acquiring U.S. citizenship through new measures outlined in the two executive orders.
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