US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders aimed at restricting birthright citizenship and curbing birth tourism. Speaking at the Oval Office, Trump expressed disappointment over the Supreme Court ruling, calling it an unfortunate decision. He added his administration was cracking down very big” on what he called abuses of the US immigration system.

According to the White House, one order identifies categories of children of foreign nationals who would not qualify for birthright citizenship under historical exceptions recognised by the Supreme Court, while the second directs the State and Homeland Security departments to end birth tourism, where foreign nationals travel to the US primarily to secure citizenship for their children.

The executive actions come weeks after the US Supreme Court ruled in June that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country are entitled to automatic US citizenship under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.