President Trump stopped by the US Supreme Court to listen to oral arguments on the birthright citizenship case. The only President ever, I think, to do that. Power tie, listening.
He is later reported to have said, “We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!”
I’m thinking, maybe the current interpretation of the Constitution and existing law might favor stupid but Matt Margolis, over at PJ Media, has an interesting exchange between Solicitor General D. John Sauer and the Dumb Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson who, to her credit, tossed a lot of theoretical bombs over a wall she will never be convinced to climb, let alone cross.
If you do a generic search for birthright citizenship, the so-called engines crank out Handmaiden media headlines as if they too were a mouthpiece of America’s Pravda. The clucking hens are nearly unanimous in their estimation that SCOTUS is suspicious of Trump’s position, despite the KJB-Sauer exchange.
So, which is it?
It is legitimate to say the world generally doesn’t allow birthright citizenship, and increasingly so. You might want to ask the globalists why the exception, not the rule? The domestic breed disagrees with the Constitution when it suits them, so if, in fact, the blessed parchment can be read to suggest we go either way or none at all, why not go with the globalists?
In what may be one of Grokster Ian Underwood’s shortest contributions to these pages, he asks, “If someone visits the United States, and is born again, does he become a citizen?”
In related news, Tom Homan, going back in time to 2019, was asked by Sandy Cortz,
AOC: You recommended family separation.
Homan: I recommended zero tolerance
AOC: Which includes family separation.
Homan: The same as every U.S. Citizen who gets arrested with a child.
The same as every US citizen who breaks the law, which doesn’t answer the question or intimate where SCOTUS will land or whether it matters to ICE or Tom Homan if the parent(s) are arrested and deported, and what about that?
The Trump administration, in just over a year, has located around half the illegal alien kids that whoever was running the Biden Administration (WRBA) lost. First, they didn’t lose them; they were trafficked, and the WRBA didn’t give a rat’s backside. When located, the terrible, awful, Nazi stormtrooper ICE agents try to find their family and reunite them, even if they are not in the US.
The kid belongs first to their parents, then other family members, wherever they are. Being here illegally for most of your life doesn’t or shouldn’t change that unless we add a statute of limitations on the crime, and if one exists, I’m not familiar with it. Especially if, to quote a million Democrats and their army of media parrots, no one is above the law. It may not be their fault, but neither is it the fault of a driver who leaves the scene of a crime they were unaware had been committed.
It is up to legislators to take the temperature of their constituency and then craft laws or change them accordingly. Democrats have had opportunities and instead relied on presidents to do the work, which only has the force of law when they agree with it.
If you watch TV or care what the movie and television writers think, the kid who grew up here should not be thrown into a foreign land where they had no connection to the language or culture, which sounds to me like an argument against birthright citizenship or any anchor-child argument of any kind, especially give the increasing tribalism of so-called refugees and asylum seekers who aren’t looking to escape their language, culture, traditions, criminal habits, or assimilate in any way short of being open to grift at taxpayer expense.
If you so very much want to be American, then we don’t need to press two for Spanish, which, for the record, is racist and a little colonialist since you Español is the language of their conquerors, and we don’t have to press three for Farsi or 4 for Mandarin and so on.
Not yet, so before we get there, let’s just go back. Learn to speak and write in English because you’d make us learn your native language in your home country.
There is also the question of true intent.
“For instance, this conversation over birthright tourism that’s going on.” “I mean, you have foreign adversaries with companies that are set up to help people facilitate having births in the United States to exploit our system.” “That is a worthwhile thing for the American people to know. It’s a worthwhile debate for us to have.”
I am, for the record, a huge fan of legal immigration. Most of the immigrants I know who have become American citizens, or are doing it the right way, share the flavors and nuances of where they came from but fully embrace our language and culture, and then invest their time in explaining to actual Americans how amazing our Constitution is and why free markets and free people need to be defended at all costs. That includes pushing back on planned invasions by armies of foreigners or any suspicious tactic whose purpose is to help the Democrat party grow in power and make America like the places these refugees allegedly fled.
One more point. Democrats are on the other side of this, and whenever that happens, it is almost always bad for liberty and America. SCOTUS isn’t supposed to care about that, but KBJ does, and she’s reliably on team blue, as are Sotomayor and Kagan, despite their defense of free speech in the conversion therapy ban decision. I honestly would not be surprised if Trump lost 5-4, but we’ll see.
