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The news is full of foreign policy crises, scandals, conflicts, and trends in all directions.
However, a current case before the U.S. Supreme Court tops it all.
It’s the birthright citizenship case, which determines the future of our nation and what sort of country it will be.
Does the U.S. have sovereignty to confer its own citizenship, or does anyone from any point on the globe have the right to take it from us? Are we an autonomous nation or a colony of the world?
Under current policy, any child born on U.S. soil to a foreign mother (regardless of her citizenship or legal status) becomes an American citizen for life.
A female illegal alien can cross the border and give birth to a child five minutes later. That baby is now a U.S. citizen, with the eventual right to vote and bring in more foreign relatives.
It’s not just illegal aliens — well-off foreigners come to the U.S. on tourist visas, birth offspring, then return home with dual citizens.
Decades later, that child can return and claim all the benefits of U.S. citizenship.
It’s insane and the policy must be abolished.
In Mexico, where I resided for many years, U.S. citizenship is seen as a valuable possession.
But this is not because they want to convert from being Mexicans to being Americans — it’s so they can reap the benefits of U.S. citizenship, while remaining “Mexican.”
In the 1990s, Mexico’s government changed its citizenship policy to allow them to do just that!
Many countries, not just Mexico, manipulate U.S. citizenship.
China is now home to many American citizens thanks to “birth tourism.” Pregnant Chinese women fly here, give birth, and take their little “American” back to China.
There, the child can be indoctrinated by the Chinese Communist Party until such time as he or she returns to the U.S. to exercise his citizenship rights.
Why do we allow this?
Spies, communists, terrorists, and criminals can easily infiltrate the U.S. if they are American citizens.
Yaser Esam Hamdi was captured in Afghanistan by U.S. forces. It turned out he was an American citizen because he was born in Louisiana. His Saudi parents resided there while his father was working on a temporary visa.
Juan Carlos Valencia, apparently the current boss of Mexico’s biggest drug cartel, was born in California, making him a U.S. citizen.
Delia Ramirez, daughter of an illegal immigrant, now represents the Third District of Illinois in the U.S. Congress. At a conference in Mexico City she recently declared, “I’m a Guatemalan with much pride before I’m an American.”
And so forth.
On Day One of Donald Trump’s second presidency, he signed Executive Order 14160 to close this massive loophole.
EO 14160 stipulates that a newborn baby can only become a U.S. citizen if one of his/her parents is a citizen or lawful permanent resident. That would exclude temporary residents and illegal aliens.
If I had my druthers, the baby would only be a citizen if at least one parent were a U.S. citizen.
Nevertheless, this order would be a great step forward, so I support it.
Unsurprisingly, the EO was sued and made its way to the Supreme Court as Trump v. Barbara.
On Apr. 1, testimony was given during a 2-hour session. Arguing the administration’s case was Solicitor General D. John Sauer. Opposing it was Cecillia Wang of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Sauer argued the domicile concept, which stipulates that, if an immigrant is permanently domiciled in the U.S., the child can be a citizen, but not if this is not the case.
Wang argued that any baby born here — save a few exceptions — is a U.S. citizen, and Congress can’t restrict that.
I read the entire thing.
If you’re interested, I encourage you to do the same. You can find the text here and listen to the audio here.
At some point, the justices have to make their decisions, which will probably not be announced until June or July.
We ought to pray for the justices, that they be granted wisdom.
The future of the United States of America is at stake.
