Yes, It’s Time To End The Illegal Birthright Citizenship Scam
There’s a bit of a ripple going on out there now over a statement Donald Trump made that he’d sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship for the kids of illegal aliens once he gets in office…
We don’t have to worry a whole lot about the political implications of this, because on Tuesday we saw that tougher stances on immigration policy are not poison pills with Hispanic voters. That was a lie made into conventional wisdom by the legacy corporate media and pre-Trump Republicans never pushed back on it for the most obvious reason out there; namely, that the pre-Trump GOP (Bush Republicans, I call them) was a slavishly corporatist party and were happy to import as much cheap labor for XYZ Corporation as they could.
The Uniparty was more than happy to push the falsehood that it was political suicide to restore the original understanding of the 14th Amendment’s treatment of the question, which is why this was never resolved.
But now Trump is going to force it to the forefront, and this is a good thing.
Here’s what Section 1 of the 14th Amendment says…
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Emphasis mine.
“Subject to the jurisdiction thereof” was supposed to be interpreted as meaning “owing allegiance to.” In other words, when the amendment was passed, it was understood that a British diplomat and his wife working in Washington and having a child there would not create an American – that child would be a British child.
The parents could have the child naturalized, but citizenship wouldn’t append at birth because the child’s parents aren’t Americans.
The more recent, leftist, interpretation of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is that if you’re here, you have to obey the laws here, so that would make your kids automatically Americans.
But why bother putting that clause in the amendment if that’s what it’s supposed to mean? It’s redundant.
There will be a sizable controversy over an EO that Trump might issue changing the interpretation of the 14th Amendment. Which is fine. This issue ought to go in front of the Supreme Court, particularly given its current makeup.
What we would suggest is that Congress pass something echoing the proposed EO so that we don’t waste time over the question whether the president has the authority to make this policy via an executive order.
Especially since we know what this is about. Democrats have insisted on interpreting this clause in the most permissive way possible because they want to make as many voters as they can out of as large a flood of migrants as they can.
In other words, to replace the current electorate.
One of the exciting things about Trump’s victory on Tuesday is that the current electorate is now giving Trump the go-ahead to push back against that replacement.
The hope is that this is only one of several measures which ought to be taken to protect America as it is, rather than allowing those migrants to change us into a different country (which is why they’re here, or more accurately, why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and a host of left-wing NGO’s brought them here). A couple among the others…
- Change the way the Census counts Americans for the purposes of apportionment. The Census needs to count citizens, not residents. It’s worthwhile to count both, for a number of reasons, but it’s utterly illegitimate to count illegals along with citizens for the purpose of drawing congressional districts. That has to stop.
- Pass the SAVE Act to put teeth into laws preventing illegals and other non-citizens from voting. Democrats will tell you this is a solution in search of a problem, but they’re lying. We know illegals are voting. It would be very nice to pass something which calls for immediate deportation of any non-citizen who votes in a federal election.
