Trump's week in review: World Vision grants; birth tourism ban; organ procurement group decertified

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Friday, August 07, 2026

1. Trump signs new executive orders on birthright citizenship, birth tourism

One executive order signed by Trump this week authorizes the United States Secretary of Homeland Security and the U.S. Secretary of State to prevent those who plan to engage in birth tourism from entering the country, revoke their visas and permanently ban them from entering the U.S. 

As explained by White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller at the Oval Office event, birth tourism is a phenomenon where “people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretending to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland, they want to go visit … a monument or go to a national park but the real reason they’re here is to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen, leave our country and then have a U.S. citizen child.”

“It gives them access under this broken system to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth and all the other rights and privileges that belong solely to Americans,” he added. “So that practice of birth tourism is as of the signing of this order hereby banned. And what that means is that no one in the world is anymore allowed to obtain a visa for this fraudulent purpose.”

The second executive order prohibits the executive branch from issuing citizenship to the children of members of foreign terrorist organizations as well as the children of employees of foreign governments such as ambassadors and anyone engaged in “a commercial transaction to purchase or access birthright citizenship for the person, or engaged in fraudulent activity to obtain citizenship.”

These orders were issued following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in June to strike down Trump's January 2025 executive order that sought to limit birthright citizenship. The majority ruling cited the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which says that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”