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After losing the birthright citizenship case 37 days ago, Trump is back with not one, but two new executive orders attacking birthright citizenship. I gotta give the man credit. He's completely relentless. So here's the new legal manoeuvre. Chief Justice Roberts wrote that children born here are citizens unless some narrow extraterrestrial fiction applies. It was a reference to historic exceptions involving people like accredited diplomats, enemy forces actually occupying American territory. So now Trump is now trying to stretch that phrase and create entirely new exceptions to birthright citizenship. Under the first order, when neither parent is a citizen, federal agencies are told not to recognise the child's citizenship if a parent of a designated terrorist organisation, works for a foreign government, participates in a commercial birth right tourism arrangement, or enters into a commercial arrangement with a surrogate in the United States. Now, that surrogacy provision, that's enormous. There is no green card holder exception, so on its face, the order could potentially reach lawful permanent residents and otherwise lawful surrogacy arrangements. But here's the Supreme Court just ruled that children born here to undocumented parents and temporary visitors are U.S. citizens. Five justices said the 14th Amendment requires it. Justice Kavanaugh supplied the sixth vote and said the president cannot create new exceptions under law because Congress has never changed the statute. But here Trump is doing it anyway. And the second order targets birth tourism through visas, but B visa birth tourism has already been restricted since 2020. What is new is the push for visa revocation, removal, possible permanent entry and action against anyone facilitating these arrangements. My prediction is that the visa order may have practical consequences much sooner. The citizenship order is almost certainly going straight back to the courts. Straight up to the Supreme Court? Yes. Punish immigration fraud by parent, absolutely. But that doesn't give the president erase the American born child citizenship. The Supreme Court just decided this 37 days ago. Tell me what you think. I'll be watching in the comments.