The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, striking down President Trump’s executive order attempting to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents.
But the ruling did not change the Constitution. It did not create or strike down any federal law. The Supreme Court merely affirmed what was established 125 years ago, which affirmed what the 14th Amendment said when it was ratified 150 years ago.
The president’s allies and top administration officials have cast the decision in apocalyptic terms, effectively comparing the ruling to treason. Despite the Supreme Court preserving a century-old status quo, Trump’s allies and right-wing influencers are reviving the violent nativism that fueled attacks against the 14th Amendment more than a century ago.
They’re now warning against an epidemic of “birth tourism,” turning pregnant women into the new boogeyman in a decades-long anti-immigration campaign.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said the ruling will lead to “national self-obliteration.” He called it “suicide” and “a deep knife wound in the heart of the American republic.” Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts called the decision a “tremendous betrayal.” MAGA lawyer Mike Davis called on the government to “get these pregnant women and women who could be pregnant the hell out of our country.” Self-described fascist influencer Matt Walsh said to “use whatever force is necessary” to repel “invaders.”
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin suggested pregnant immigrants are traveling to the country with “one week” left in their pregnancy and nodded along as Fox News personality Brian Kilmeade suggested pregnant women should be barred from coming into the country altogether.
Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles has already introduced a bill to do just that, while Sean Davis, the CEO of right-wing media outlet The Federalist, called on the U.S. to “require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry” before suggesting that the country should be “dissolved.”
“A nation which can’t even restrict who gets to be a citizen isn’t a nation,” he said.
“Just physically being on U.S. soil does not make you a citizen or qualified to carry on or capable of executing the inheritance of this country,” Miller told Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime.
“We have people from all over the world, from third-world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel,” he said.
“And they can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones? Can decide who our mayors are? Our governors are? Our presidents are?”
American citizenship “means nothing if it is open to everyone,” he said
The 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause plainly states that “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.”
In Tuesday’s decision, the Supreme Court held that the children of “unlawfully or temporarily present” parents are indeed “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. and are citizens at birth.
If allowed to take effect, Trump’s executive order that unilaterally redefines the citizenship clause would have torn apart immigrant families. Children would have entered a stateless limbo that forces them to navigate complex legal and humanitarian issues in an already-byzantine immigration system.
Trump’s allies are pushing to go even further by stripping automatic citizenship for virtually anyone without an entirely new bureaucracy to vet and approve parents and their newborns, which would upend how all families give birth in the U.S.
The divided ruling from the high court affirmed that the children of ‘unlawfully or temporarily present’ parents are American citizens at birth.
The idea that millions of very pregnant immigrants are entering the country on tourist visas solely to give birth to an American citizen isn’t new. The derogatory term “anchor babies” was popularized decades ago, and combatting “birth tourism” was central to the Trump administration’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court, where the government’s top attorney claimed that billions of people are “one plane ride away from having a child who’s a U.S. citizen.”
“It’s a booming industry, and it will continue given the Supreme Court’s decision,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters Wednesday.
But the 14th Amendment “proved once again that it is stronger than the forces trying to hollow it out,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge.
“Birthright citizenship survived the Chinese Exclusion Act, Jim Crow … and executive order that would have essentially turned the maternity ward into a customs checkpoint,” Vignarajah said following the Supreme Court’s decision.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who firmly supported the rights of those born by non-citizens.
“Somewhere today, a baby will be born in an American hospital to immigrant parents. That baby is a citizen. Not conditionally, not provisionally, and certainly not at the discretion of any president,” she said. “That was true yesterday and the Supreme Court just made sure it stays true tomorrow.”
Shana Khader, deputy legal director at We Are CASA, an immigrant advocacy group that challenged the president’s executive order, said the ruling “reaffirmed what generations of children and families have known to be true: citizenship is a constitutional guarantee.”
“No president has the authority to unilaterally rewrite the Constitution or decide which babies count as citizens and which do not,” she said.
This attempt by President Trump to throw out American citizens whose parents were not citizens when they were born the USA would allow Trump to take away citizens hundreds of thousands of American citizens who are deemed to have been non-citizens if the Supreme Court succumbed to Donald Trump wishes.
Already President Trump managed to convince the Supreme which is now called the Trump Supreme Court because he has appointed more than half of the Supreme Court Justices. In fact, the nightmare for Trump now is that some of the Justices of the Supreme Court find some of his demands from them too extreme and they vote against such driving Trump really mad.
Haitians in the USA being locked up to be deported and killed in Haiti under Trump new rule.
The other day the Supreme Court ruled in favour of President Trump’s terrible plan to deport more than 250,000 Haitians who came to USA some even by sea to escape state terrorism in Haiti and were given status in the USA where they have lived for decades and are living their lives. But Haitians are black people and Trump would like to remove all black skin out of the USA if he could do it so the Haiti plan was very handy for him.
As Salvation for Trump Justice Clarence Thomas decided to defend his boss when he provided a dissent to the majority Supreme Court ruling and wrote half the pages of the entire 194 pages as his objection to the majority ruling.
According to Justice Thomas the 1914 Amendment which protects those born by non-citizens in the USA was meant to allow children of former slaves to be citizens of the USA.
Maybe Justice Clarence Thomas was thinking of his own parents and was scared for himself being deported to Africa.
Jusice Thomas could pass a message to the Trump government that they should have officers at the border and airports to make sure that women coming to the USA particularly from Africa and other third world countries be declared slaves as a basis for their entry into the country so that if they have children while in the USA those children can become citizens.
Justice Thomas Invokes Black History To Argue Against Birthright Citizenship In Dissent
In his dissent, Thomas argued that the 14th Amendment was a narrow correction for formerly enslaved Black Americans — not anyone born on U.S. soil.
In a 91-page dissent, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas slammed the majority for blocking President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship, writing that his colleagues’ decision “repurposed” the 14th Amendment and “devalues” citizenship.
“I am not sure that today’s opinion will stand the test of time,” he wrote. “The Citizenship Clause ‘added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship.’ Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship. I respectfully dissent.”
In writing his lengthy dissent, Thomas leaned heavily on Dred Scott v. Sandford, an ugly moment in the court’s history that stated former slaves could not claim American citizenship.
The majority also pointed to Dred Scott, noting that the 14th Amendment was meant to firmly repudiate it. But Thomas framed the 14th Amendment as a corrective clause narrowly intended for formerly enslaved people.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pointed out the apparent hypocrisy in Thomas’ rationale at the top of her concurrence, where she wrote: “Despite his longstanding endorsement of a ‘colorblind’ Constitution, Justice Thomas now surprisingly suggests that the Citizenship Clause was a race-conscious remedial measure, relating only to ‘freed slaves such as Dred Scott.’”
Notably, Thomas also repeated the divisive rhetoric that Trump has frequently used to describe immigrants, such as “foreign birth tourists” and “illegal aliens,” while stoking anxieties that birthright citizenship could force the U.S. to grant citizenship to children of foreign spies or enemies.
In the meantime, President Trump needs to quickly pay Jean Caroll $ 5.8 million for sexually assaulting her after Supreme Court ruling on the case last week.
Please, Donald pay up what you owe and do not sexually assault other women after this one. This is the so-called greatest president of the United States of America. Shame on him.
Supreme Court ruling in E. Jean Carroll sex assault case means Trump will now have to pay up
President Donald Trump reached the end of a long road gridlocked by appeals and must pay $5 million to E. Jean Carroll after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a civil jury’s verdict that he sexually assaulted her.
The decision unlocks $5 million awarded to Carroll, which Trump was required to deposit in a court-controlled account after the trial, where it has since remained, accruing interest.
Americans need to ask themselves one question. In which other country in the world do they have a person found guilty of sexual assault as their president in charge of the country. Only in the United States of America it seems.
And that sex offender is the person who wants to bully the whole world and talks all the time about moral nonsense while committing this kind of heinous crimes. Get lost Mr. President you are a very bad person and there is no redemption for you.
