Birthright Citizenship

The 14th amendment Section 1 of the United States constitution 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. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, our property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdictions the equal protection of the laws”.

As normal in the media, things are twisted into a way that sells. If we take the executive order as it is written, we will see that it is not directed at any children born in the United States legally. We would also see that the order is completely aimed at the illegal immigrants who walked across the border by the thousands in the Biden administration. It is written to prevent those who came here illegally from quickly having children and then claiming parental citizenship in order to take care of the children.

 

The executive order states two different situations where a person is no longer a U.S. citizen at birth:

• When the mother was unlawfully present in the U.S. and the father was neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident when the person was born.

• When the mother was in the U.S. in temporary status, such as a student visa, work visa, tourist visa or under the Visa Waiver Program, and the father was neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident when the person was born.

 

The executive order states that these provisions are only effective for people born 30 days or more after the date of the order; it would have only applied to children born beginning February 19, 2025 had it not been blocked by the US Supreme Court.

This order has nothing to do with the people who are here now, who were born and raised here, or who are prominent tax-paying members of our society today.