State Department shuts down alleged birth tourism schemes!

The announcement spotlighted an ongoing debate over the concept of birthright citizenship. President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a statement saying the United States could no longer live with what he characterized as the shackles of birthright citizenship. He went on to call the idea economically unsustainable. In January 2025 he issued an executive order calling for an end to birthright citizenship to children born of a mother who was in the United States illegally.

Birthright citizenship was created in the wake of slavery to guarantee citizenship in the wake of slavery, according to a statement from California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office. In Trump v. Barbara, a case currently before the Supreme Court challenging Trump’s executive order, defenders of birthright citizenship argue that the concept is based on the centuries-old, common-law tradition of citizenship by virtue of birth, rather than parentage.