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Trump signs new executive orders limiting birthright citizenship [SOUND]

# US president Donald Trump has signed two executive orders that seek to broaden the categories of children ineligible for automatic US citizenship, and ban so-called “birth tourism”. Last month the Supreme Court rejected the president’s effort to end birthright citizenship, a guarantee enshrined in the US Constitution. The Migration Policy Institute estimate birth tourism at 22-thousand to 26-thousand babies born annually on American soil. Trump says the order also denies birthright citizenship to children whose parents engaged in fraudulent activity to obtain citizenship:

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