Trump targets birth tourism to
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Trump targets birth tourism to the US after Supreme Court citizenship ruling

US President Donald Trump wants to stop pregnant foreign women from entering the US. Statements to that effect are being made after the Supreme Court recently ruled that children born in the US have the right to citizenship.

Trump adviser Stephen Miller said Tuesday that the United States must “think very carefully about who we allow into our country, even temporarily,” because children born in the United States to foreigners can become American citizens and gain access to the social safety net, Axios reports.

The president has, according to White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson, ordered Congress to "take immediate action to address this."

The Department of Justice should prioritize investigations into what is called birth tourism, she told Axios.

It is estimated that there are between 20,000 and 26,000 cases of birth tourism per year in the United States.

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