HUGE: Supreme Court to Consider Key Birthright Citizenship Case Next Week

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The Supreme Court is preparing to hear one of the most important cases of our lifetimes.

Next week on April 1st, SCOTUS will weigh whether or not to uphold President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.

If the court sides with President Trump, this would mark the end to decades of birth tourism — a loophole that illegal immigrants and foreigners have been abusing to get citizenship for their children.

Kayleigh McEnany of Fox News dove deeper in this clip:

BREAKING: The US Supreme Court is about to consider UPHOLDING President Trump’s executive order that ends birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and migrants who cheat the system

This is a MUST-WIN for our republic. Do the right thing, SCOTUS! 🇺🇸

“Next week, the Supreme Court is slated to revisit President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.”

“It directs all U.S. government agencies to refuse issuing citizenship documents to children born to illegal immigrants or children who do not have at least one parent who is an American or a lawful permanent resident.”

“It’s a law President Trump says is in place all over the world, and he’s right. You’re looking at that map. And if he wins in court, he would effectively cripple the booming birth tourism industry!”

Right now, anyone born inside the United States is automatically granted citizenship under the 14th Amendment.

As you may or may not know, this is absolutely not what was intended by the 14th Amendment!

To understand why, we have to go back a little in history to the year 1857, when the Supreme Court made the infamous Dred Scott ruling that African-Americans could not be U.S. citizens.

A few years later, in 1868, the 14th Amendment was enacted to overrule that terrible SCOTUS decision.

It was intended to ensure that Black people whose ancestors were brought to our nation through slavery were guaranteed U.S. citizenship.

However, in recent times, foreigners from around the world have been taking advantage of this amendment to secure citizenship for their children.

Nobody took any action to stop this growing issue of birth tourism until President Trump signed an executive order on the matter last January.

Here’s more from that executive order:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The privilege of United States citizenship is a priceless and profound gift. The Fourteenth Amendment states: “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.” That provision rightly repudiated the Supreme Court of the United States’s shameful decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), which misinterpreted the Constitution as permanently excluding people of African descent from eligibility for United States citizenship solely based on their race.

But the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text.

Among the categories of individuals born in the United States and not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary (such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.

Sec. 2. Policy. (a) It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.

President Trump’s executive order is meant to restore the original meaning of the 14th Amendment — not override the Constitution.

However, ever since he signed it, the order has faced legal challenges from lower courts.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court will make the right decision next week and uphold his order so we can finally end birthright citizenship for the many illegal immigrants who abuse the system!

Many folks on X are pointing out how big of a deal this really is:

Do the right thing, SCOTUS!

What are your thoughts?

Do you support ending birthright citizenship for children of non-citizens?



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