Interesting...
And not in a good way, IMHO...
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the legality of an executive order from President Donald Trump that would restrict birthright citizenship.
The order would deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States to mothers who are unauthorized immigrants or have legal temporary status at the time of the child’s birth if the father is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident.
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In 2023, mothers who were unauthorized immigrants or had legal temporary status in the U.S. had 320,000 babies, representing about 9% of all 3.6 million babies born in the U.S. that year. About 260,000 of those babies would not have qualified for birthright citizenship if Trump’s executive order had already been in effect. This includes:
About 245,000 babies born to mothers who were unauthorized immigrants and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents
About 15,000 babies born to mothers who had legal temporary status and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents
Full article, HERE from the Pew Research Center.
Of note, a significant percentage of the ‘temporary status births’ were what is called birth tourism, with many of those being Chinese. Interesting, isn’t it???
And we all remember the sob stories about the pregnant females stopped at the southern border by the new administration in 2025, right? Did anyone wonder ‘why’ all those pregnant females were wailing and moaning about being stopped? If they had the kids in Mexico, no US citizenship!
Much like the whole feet wet/feet dry Cuban refugee status, ironically ended by Obama in 2017, HERE.
The Pew report only goes back to 1990, but the numbers they posit are pretty large, making up possibly 1/3 of the total illegal immigrants currently in the US, if those birthright citizenships had been denied.
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment has been open to discussion for many years, HERE. Much of the issue revolves around the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof“ and what that really means.
IMHO, birth tourists and illegals do not meet the requirement of being subject to the jurisdiction, since they are not American, and are not in the process of being naturalized.
Your thoughts?
In most every other country on the planet only citizens can beget citizens. This was known full well back when the country was founded, and it is known today. It took the first 35 years or so before the first "Natural" citizens were eligible to become President, and any time since then citizenship was and is only eligible to those who go through some sort of naturalization process. Crossing a border and squirting out a child has not EVER been enough, and the people arguing otherwise know it as well.
Lawyers are paid to find loopholes and exploit them.
Lawyers are elected to Congress.
Our laws are full of Swiss cheese holes. 🤷♂️