Birthright citizenship has been abused by illegal aliens for decades. They come here, squat and drop children, and assume that gives the whole family citizenship.
The Left also twisted the constitution to fit their idea of (gay) marriage. The 14th Amendment states the privileges and immunities of citizenship shall not be abridged by the states. It has nothing to do with marriage; gay, straight or otherwise. The amendment was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves, not illegal aliens.
That has come to an end.
Last year the SCOTUS showed some common sense:
In a 6-3 ruling on Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court voted to narrow nationwide injunctions that had previously hampered Trump on a number of issues — including the birthright citizenship issue.
Fast forward to the latest decision, and the SCOTUS showed just how ignorant it can be:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship in a 5-4 decision. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, saying children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are still “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. The ruling keeps the current rule in place, which means the fight did not end. It just moved to Congress, where time moves at the speed of a stamped form.
Trump quickly responded on Truth Social, saying the court’s decision was “too bad for our Country,” but arguing that Congress can change the law without a long constitutional amendment fight. He called birthright citizenship “expensive and unfair” and urged lawmakers to “start TODAY” on legislation. In other words, the President is asking Congress to do what Congress often promises to do: act quickly. That is rare enough to deserve its own press release. Trump said he would give lawmakers his “Complete and Total Support” if they take up the issue.
President Donald Trump responded to Tuesday’s Supreme Court’s ruling striking down his birthright citizenship executive order by appearing to back immigration legislation that would further clarify how immigrants can become citizens.
In a 6-3 ruling, justices held that an executive order Trump issued on the first day of his second term violated the Constitution. The order greatly restricted the circumstances in which a baby born in the United States would automatically be granted American citizenship.
…….Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, concluded, “Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.”
After the ruling, the president used the Truth Social social media platform to post a link to an article from the Washington-based website Just the News that was headlined: “Trump’s efforts to reverse birthright citizenship may succeed with or without SCOTUS.”
He followed up with a second post, writing, “The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process.”
……..In its report, Just the News noted that: “Several bills, most notably the Birthright Citizenship Act introduced by [Texas Rep. Brian] Babin and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one day after Trump’s inauguration in 2025 (and similar versions in recent Congresses), seek to end or sharply restrict automatic birthright citizenship by amending the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).”
“These measures would reinterpret the 14th Amendment’s ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ clause to grant citizenship at birth only to children with at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident (LPR) residing in the U.S., or an LPR serving in the military,” the news outlet added.
The Center for Immigration Studies noted last year that between 225,000 and 250,000 births to illegal immigrants occurred in 2023, or 7 percent of the total 3.6 million births in the U.S.
…….The three justices dissenting from Tuesday’s decision were Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch.
Alito wrote in his dissent, “In sum, the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on a person who is born in this country or naturalized only if that person is also ‘not subject to any foreign power.’”
“The Court interprets ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ differently. In its view, the phrase simply means subject to the laws that apply to everyone who is present within the country’s borders,” he added.
Alito observed, “The Court’s interpretation preserves a powerful incentive to enter or remain in this country illegally. Immigrants naturally prefer affluent countries where economic opportunities are available. Other than Canada, the United States will be the only affluent nation where birth alone is enough to establish citizenship.”
He concluded, “If the Fourteenth Amendment required these results, the country would have to live with them or amend the Constitution. But the Fourteenth Amendment does not include the rule the Court now imposes on the country. In my judgment, the Court has made a mistake that will seriously affect the country’s future.”
…..“Neither the Founding Fathers, nor the authors of the 14th Amendment, nor the millions of Americans who fought and died for their country through the ages intended to establish a nation whose citizenship could so easily be purchased, whether through birth tourism of China’s communist party members or an invasion of millions enabled by faithless presidents,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told the Daily Signal.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, expanded on Lee’s remarks and told the Daily Signal that the “Supreme Court failed the American people.”
“The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in no way stands for the proposition of creating a dangerous cottage industry of traveling to our soil to manufacture United States citizenship,” Roy continued. “The Supreme Court today should have said so explicitly and ended this damaging exploitation of our laws.”
Roy has now called on Congress to “immediately do at least two things it should have done long ago,” which include “defin[ing] the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ very specifically to make clear that citizenship is tied to the citizenship of the parent, not the soil,” and “completely restrict[ing] funding from [the Department of Homeland Security] or any other agency or state that provides documentation and status to anyone not subject to the ‘jurisdiction thereof.’”
“In other words, Congress must act immediately and must not hide behind the fiction that it must amend the Constitution to fix this abuse of our laws,” Roy continued. “To do otherwise would be an abject failure of the United States Congress.”
Birth tourism is a cottage industry:
During oral arguments before the Supreme Court regarding birthright citizenship, the Trump administration noted the prevalence of “birth tourism,” or the action of an expecting foreign national traveling to the United States with the intention of giving birth to their child on American soil, granting them US citizenship.
Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox News as the Supreme Court was in session, “There are more than 500 firms in China that facilitate people coming from the Chinese Communist Party to give birth here in the United States. Obama enabled this through loopholes dating back to 2009, and what that could mean is 1 million new voters by 2030. Imagine that, Communist Party voters.”
Over the years, a number of companies across the US and its territories have catered to mothers from countries such as Russia and China. Recent reports have revealed companies operating in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific.
Analysts have estimated that around 1,000 companies offer birth tourism services to US territories and the mainland. They claim that in China alone, 1.5 million American-born babies are being raised by Chinese parents who have participated in such services.
Among such companies is the Shanghai-based GlobalBaby8, which advertises “economy” packages for expecting mothers starting at $14,000, and a “Supreme Type” package that starts at $45,000 and includes features such as a luxury villa, shopping and leisure trips, dedicated postpartum nanny service, and a one-month birthday party for the child.
Another company, China Mifubaby Group, has offices in California and multiple Chinese cities, and caters to Korean and Japanese moms-to-be, advertising “expedited visas,” “American citizenship,” and “short direct flight distance.”
A 2017 report from the Wall Street Journal noted that the number of American babies born to Chinese women on the Mariana Islands hit 472 in 2016, up from eight in 2009. The report stated, “An association of Chinese birth-tour operators estimated that 10,000 Chinese birth tourists came to the US in 2012.”
In Miami, the business Have My Baby in Miami advertises “complete logistical support” for foreign nationals looking to have babies in the US. It claims to have helped deliver over 2,000 babies. A New Jersey hospital came under fire in 2016 after it was revealed that a company based in the Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center was encouraging Russian women to come to the center to give birth on US soil. The company, AmeriMama, offered “tour” packages that coordinated medical services at the hospital and promised to secure citizenship papers for the baby.
Some companies have been cracked down on in recent years. Dongyuan Li pleaded guilty in 2019 to running the birth tourism company You Win USA Vacation Services, which was based in Southern California. In 2015, ICE raided around 40 locations in Southern California that were tied to birth tourism operations.
A 2022 Senate Homeland Security Committee report stated that once it began its investigation into birth tourism, two companies—Ada International in California and Miami Mama in Florida—ceased operations. Ada International, also known as US Baby Ada’s, catered to Chinese expecting mothers. Packages started at $22,000 and went as high as $38,000. The company offered visa consulting services for the expecting mothers, as well as housing and healthcare arrangements. Miami Mama catered to Russian women and had branch offices in Russia and Ukraine. The Senate report stated that Miami Mama served between “50 and 80 birth tourists” on an annual basis. Packages went up to nearly $50,000 for a VIP experience.
Republican lawmakers demanded in an early March letter to Trump administration cabinet secretaries data on the scope of the issue. The 2022 Senate report stated that the State Department had said at the time that it does not “comprehensively track birth tourism.”
The report noted that there are trends among those who come to the US for the purposes of giving birth: declarations of cash ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, numerous return visits to the United States, and medical bill adjustments.
After the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s motion to restrict birthright citizenship on Tuesday, both chambers of Congress are overseeing legislation that would stop foreign travelers from coming to the United States to give birth to a child granted American citizen status.
In the upper chamber, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., called on his colleagues to vote on his legislation, the SAFE KIDS Act, to address the gaps in U.S. surrogacy law.
“There has to be some value to American citizenship. We need to keep the rest of the world from exploiting our immigration system, and that includes letting adversarial nations like Communist China use surrogacy to do it,” Scott told the Daily Signal.
“We’ve already seen troubling cases of human trafficking and abuse linked to international surrogacy schemes, as our foreign adversaries prove willing to exploit every loophole they can to destroy us.”
You keep the family together and send them all back. No other country allows this.
The U.S. has the right to control who enters the country. There is no Constitutional or legal right for a foreigner to enter the U.S. It’s a privilege.
The Dems’ sole purpose of this sanctioned invasion is to change the fabric of the country in a very insidious way. Their goal is to pollute America with a new population of pliable serfs and dilute the influence of American citizens.
They’re illegals, regardless of what politically inspired label they assign. They pour in and commit more crimes after they get here. They shouldn’t be here in the first place. We have laws, but the DemProg-created “sanctuary cities” keep breaking them.
Illegals have been receiving benefits like food stamps, welfare, free education, tax credits, medical care, and housing for years. Enough.
Liberals have a habit of referring to illegals as “undocumented”. I’d like to exist ‘undocumented’ in any country I choose. That’s not the way it works. EVERY country has borders and immigration laws. If you violate those laws, you get deported.
Time to ship them home.
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