WASHINGTON, August 7. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning so-called birth tourism in the country, a practice in which foreign nationals travel to the US to give birth to a child who automatically receives American citizenship, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said during the signing of the document.
According to the US official, those now considered ineligible for automatic citizenship include "alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments."
"It [the executive order] ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly would be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits," Miller stated, noting that the US president has thus adopted a measure introducing a ban on "birth tourism" in the US.
