Birthright Citizenship: Feudalism Alive And Well In Modern America
Sadly, the feudal concept of birthright citizenship will be with us for a while longer, thanks to the Supreme Court, so there’s just one thing to be done. Actually there are a few things, but this is numero uno:
The Trump administration must double down on deportations. And focus on women of childbearing age.
Get these illegals out of the country immediately, before they can drop any more anchor babies.
Very few first-world countries allow birthright citizenship, mainly because it’s a vestige of feudalism. The very thing we fought a revolution to end.
Read this from SCOTUSblog.
Birthright citizenship (jus soli) originates in the 17th-century English legal doctrine of perpetual allegiance . It stems from feudalism, where all individuals born within the monarch's domain were considered natural subjects—or personal property—of the Crown, owing permanent obedience in exchange for the king’s royal protection.
And my suggestion last week - that we stop issuing tourist visas to women who might be pregnant or become pregnant while they’re here - is not longer far-fetched. At the very least, one of the conditions of obtaining a visa should be that it will immediately become invalid if the holder becomes pregnant. Visitors should post a bond with that promise.
Social media was full of suggestions to work around the court decision. Hey, that’s the American way. Remember how the left cheered when Joe Biden said the Court ruled that he couldn’t forgive student debt, but he was going to do it anyway?
Indeed, there are workarounds. Here’s one that suggests making it onerous to get into the States and blaming it all on the Chief Justice.
Yesterday the Department of Justice announced that it was directing federal prosecutors to prioritize rounding up those engaged in “birth tourism.”
Excellent.
It’s insane to think that a Chinese woman can come to the U.S., have a baby and immediately carry that Chinese infant back to communist China where he learns to hate America. Later, he’ll be allowed to vote (absentee if necessary) in our elections and travel on a U.S. passport. Heck, as a natural-born citizen, he could move to the U.S. and run for president.
Talk about a Manchurian candidate.
This is no small matter. The New York Times reports that perhaps as many as 39,000 babies are born each year through birth tourism.
The organizers of this citizenship chicanery need to be prosecuted and the practice needs to stop.
President Trump needs to exercise his authority to put a pause on all immigration from the third world for the next two years, while we wait for Congress to act.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz joined Megyn Kelly yesterday to discuss the implications of the 5-4 decision (or 6-3, depending on how you count Justice Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion) and how it might be remedied.
The professor said the 14th Amendment, which conferred citizenship on former slaves, was never intended to make citizens out of people in the country illegally.
It’s estimated that about 260,000 babies are born every year to illegal aliens in the U.S. That’s 9% of all births. Instant citizens, based on the magical dirt theory that the Supreme Court supported yesterday.
In fact, Sen. Jacob M. Howard of Michigan, who in 1866 served as the chief Senate spokesman for the 14th Amendment, emphatically declared that the new amendment would not apply to aliens.
Dershowitz noted that the language of this Constitutional Amendment was poor, leaving “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” up for debate.
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.
The professor suggested that Congress pass carefully crafted legislation that makes clear that illegal aliens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S.
Expect Democrats to oppose any such move.
Pity, because there was a time, about 20 years ago, when Democrats also cherished the idea of American citizenship and didn’t want to see it abused.
