The Supreme Court ruled that the President cannot deny citizenship to children born in the United States simply because their parents are undocumented or here temporarily.
That should have settled the broad question.
Today, Trump signed new executive orders anyway.
But these orders are narrower.
Instead of again claiming that millions of U.S.-born children are not citizens, the administration is now targeting categories it says fall outside the constitutional rule:
- children of foreign government officials
- children tied to designated terrorists or “alien enemies”
- children born through alleged commercial birth-tourism arrangements
- and visitors suspected of traveling here specifically to give birth
The White House is relying on language from the Supreme Court’s ruling about the historically narrow exceptions to birthright citizenship and arguing that these new categories are similar enough to qualify.
That is why this is still a discussion.
The Court protected the core rule:
Born here and subject to U.S. law means American citizenship.
But the administration is now testing how far the exceptions can be expanded.
The broad attack failed.
The new strategy is to narrow citizenship one category at a time.
The Supreme Court closed the main door. Trump is now testing every crack around it.
"Alleged"?? You're just going to deny that this is a thing that happens?
The 14th Amendment was ratified into the Constitution by 28 states in 1868. It is unfathomable that a convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, proven insurrectionist, granter of pardons, clemency, and unearned grace in nullifying convictions of those convicted of seditious conspiracy, six times bankrupt, accused in released FBI records of sexually assaulting a minor alongside Epstein, is now attempting to take a 5–4 ruling on purely constitutional grounds by a compromised MAGA SCOTUS to rewrite an amendment that says “all people born in the U.S. are citizens” by the stroke of a pen.
This doesn't overturn the Supreme Court's ruling.
If the law says that you can get citizenship just by being born on US soil, then birth tourism is an inevitable consequence, and there are numerous constitutional methods of preventing it.
Having 4 of 9 justices say this is not constitutionally guaranteed citizenship—and one literally give Congress a roadmap—is mind-blowing. This movement will not stop until they effectively change it, unless “we the people” who supposedly “hate America” stop them.
Well the way to stop them is through birth tourism. If you can rally enough recent migrants from hostile nations to loosen the immigration laws, then you can reform the otherwise majority-Republican electorate.
The reason you are getting smeared as anti-American is because your political agenda is entirely dependent on a massive influx of migrants from countries that hold historical grudges against the US.
Easy to ignore your evidence free smears @coffeebadger.
There's evidence all over the place. But by all means, go ahead and quadruple down on mass immigration. Let's keep this as the defining issue of every election.
Should be easy for you to provide then.
How do you prove ‘visitors suspected of travelling specifically to give birth?’ That could be tied up in courts for years. Just trying to dismantle the judgement piece by piece, not going to work in the long run though.