Why Stephen Miller thinks orders limiting birthright citizenship will go differently this time

Published August 9, 2026 7:00am ET



Stephen Miller thinks President Donald Trump’s second bid to curb birthright citizenship can survive where the first failed, he said Thursday from the Oval Office alongside the president at an executive order signing.

Trump’s two new executive orders do not revive his previous broad effort to deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants and temporary visitors. Instead, they target categories the administration says fall within narrow historical exceptions the Supreme Court left unresolved.

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