The Supreme Courts 6-3 decision upholding birthright citizenship as the law of the land enraged critics, who warned it will open the floodgates for third-world and pro-Communist “birth tourism” at a time when immigration enforcement is cracking down on illegal entry.
Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and the court’s three liberals in the 6-3 majority in Trump v. Barbara, while the court’s three remaining conservatives dissented.
The case, brought by an immigrant in New Hampshire under the pseudonym Barbara for her own protection from retaliation, challenged President Donald Trumps executive order that sought to exempt birthright citizenship from the Fourteenth Amendment, which was crafted to ensure formerly enslaved people obtained American citizenship.
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White House advisor Stephen Miller called the ruling “one of the most destructive and outrageous decisions in the long history of the Supreme Court.”
“American citizenship is not the birthright of the world. It belongs only and solely to Americans. No provision of the Constitution can be read to require our national self-obliteration,” he said.
“The constant diluting of our citizenship. Everyone can vote. Everyones a citizen. Everyone gets Medicaid. Everyone qualifies for food stamps,” said Daniel Turner, president of the pro-domestic energy group Power the Future.
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“Youre American. So is the Mexican who arrived 11 minutes ago or the Chinese spy who paid for birth tourism: Because equity.”
Turners take echoed a common refrain among those long concerned that such a ruling would result in an influx of illegal immigrants having babies on American soil before returning to their home countries, allowing their children to vote in U.S. elections once they turn 18.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., wasted no time proposing legislation to address the ruling after Kavanaugh wrote in his concurring opinion that Trumps order didnt violate the Constitution but did violate a federal law crafted in the spirit of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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“The Supreme Courts birthright citizenship decision is wrong, dangerous, and disastrous for American sovereignty and the American people,” Schmitt said in a statement.
“If we can’t fix it with ordinary legislation, then we must do what the Constitution commands in moments of national crisis: We must amend the Constitution and restore American citizenship.”
“We must again put We the People first. The Supreme Courts decision constitutionalizing unlimited birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and temporarily present aliens is wrongâand disastrous for our sovereignty and the future of our republic.”
Schmitt said America is already reaping the fruits of birthright citizenship in light of “foreign communists essentially taking over New York City politics</a
