Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants Is Insane

Weeks after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump looked to cut straight to the heart of birthright citizenship — the notion that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen — through an executive order titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” that looked to impede automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants.

But in a massive blow to the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court just decided that this executive order violated the 14th Amendment, specifically the first line of Section 1: “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.”

One side note here is that this rejection of one of Trump’s favorite policies is further proof of the Supreme Court’s independence.

As Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his dissenting opinion:

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens. In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support.”

As if it is not obvious that birthright citizenship is intentionally abused by illegal immigrants to secure their own residence in the United States simply by aiming their genitals at American soil three seconds before birth, let’s look at this in simple terms that we can all understand.

You own a house. It’s your house, not mine. You love your house. You have your own traditions, decorations and house rules. That’s all well and good. After all, it’s your house. Now let’s say my wife and I break into your house in the middle of the night. When you come downstairs for breakfast, you are shocked to find two uninvited guests rifling through your fridge. You ask us to leave, and call the police, but before we are removed from the premises, my wife gives birth, right on your favorite carpet.

Can that baby now call your home his or her home? Does that baby have a right to your property? Are you, the homeowner, responsible for the baby? Who cares that the baby is only in your home because some pesky laws were broken? And if the home is now the baby’s home, then why can’t my wife and I stay too? After all, it would be cruel to separate a family!

This is, of course, ridiculous, but it is precisely the position we find ourselves in. Whether or not birthright citizenship is constitutional, by nature of the Supreme Court’s involvement, it is a matter of debate. But so is the content of the Constitution itself!

“The Constitution is clear,” Rep. Ilhan Omar celebrated. “No one can change that.” Well, actually, they can. It is clearly time for an amendment to an amendment, as Sen. Rand Paul noted following the Supreme Court decision.

But with so many politicians (i.e., Democrats) relying on the reliable importation of ready-to-vote future Democrats, I’m not exactly holding my breath.

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