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Posted on 07/01/2026 4:41:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Supreme Court came out with some decisions Monday and Tuesday that many conservatives are celebrating, but as they say, you can’t win ‘em all.
As many pundits expected, the High Court knocked down President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, which said people born on American soil should not automatically be granted citizenship if their parents were here either illegally or temporarily. The court ruled otherwise in a 5-4 decision, arguing that the 14th Amendment specifically provides that anyone born here is regarded as a citizen.
This leaves the door open to the birthright tourism scam, where pregnant women either purposefully overstay their visas or sneak into the country illegally and have their babies.
So there’s nothing to be done after the SCOTUS decision, right?
Not so, says the DOJ. They reacted quickly, and in a department-wide memo, a top official ordered federal prosecutors to prioritize investigations and prosecutions against scammers who try to game the system:
Now we’re talking.
If we catch you trying to cheat, you will be punished, the memo said:
A senior Justice Department official, Colin McDonald, told employees in a memo that people who come to the United States under "false pretenses" to give birth and secure citizenship for their child could be criminally charged under laws barring visa fraud, money laundering, identity theft and wire fraud.
"The Department of Justice will zealously protect the sanctity of United States citizenship by investigating and prosecuting those who fraudulently exploit our immigration system," McDonald wrote in a memo to all DOJ employees that was posted on social media.
Prior to issuing the memo, the DOJ had earlier hinted at the crackdown, calling birth tourism a “national security threat”:
Birth tourism schemes exploit our immigration laws and often violate our criminal laws. The Department of Justice will prioritize the prosecutions of birth tourism schemes across the country. Actors seeking to exploit loopholes to obtain automatic citizenship for their children pose a national security threat and will be brought to justice.
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon reminded us Wednesday of a story showing how damaging (and lucrative) birth tourism scams can be:
Now that the Supreme Court has given its blessing to birth tourism, it's probably worth revisiting this story from 2019.
A Chinese national named Dongyuan Li ran a company called You Win USA Vacation Services that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. to give birth so their children would get citizenship. She advertised having served more than 500 customers, charged each between $40,000 and $80,000, used 20 apartments in Irvine to house the mothers, and took in $3 million in wire transfers from China in two years.
Customers were coached to lie on their visa applications and at the U.S. consulate interview in China, claiming they'd stay only two weeks when they actually planned to stay up to three months to give birth. They were told to come early in pregnancy and were coached on how to conceal their pregnancies from customs.
You Win's marketing pitch was that giving birth in the U.S. meant "13 years of free education," "less pollution," "an easier way for the whole family to immigrate to the United States," and "priority for jobs in U.S. government, public companies, and large corporations."
What could possibly go wrong by constitutionalizing the incentive driving these schemes?
Dongyuan Li pleaded guilty to federal charges for the scam in 2019 and was sentenced to 10 months in prison. Li's operation was exactly the type of threat that needs to be dealt with harshly, and as Trump pointed out in a social media post reacting to the SCOTUS ruling, Congress needs to enact more powerful laws to deal with the situation.
The Supreme Court ruling may not have gone the way many wanted it to, but that doesn’t mean nothing can be done. Let’s roll, DOJ.
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Can’t we be more like Europe?
Grok:
“ No European countries currently offer fully unconditional birthright citizenship (Ireland was the last to restrict it).”
“people who come to the United States under ‘false pretenses’ to give birth and secure citizenship for their child could be criminally charged under laws barring visa fraud, money laundering, identity theft and wire fraud.”
“... will be brought to justice.”
That’s OK, but what is justice? It results in our tax money being used to hire staff to conduct investigations, try cases in court, process paperwork, and foot the bill for many years in our prisons. It’s not right. No matter what they do, we end up paying the price for their criminal acts.
At airport baggage claim areas, all foreign women must pee on a stick and wait five minutes before leaving the airport and breathe American air.
Make it a felony for an illegal or temporary tourist to give birth in the USA.
Mandatory expulsion from the country with no possibility of returning.
If they leave their anchor baby behind, we can deal with it.
what about the ~20 milliom breeders that brandon & mayorkis walked in the door.
how many “new citizens” have they dropped over the past 5 years?
If they are no admittance.
Millions................
Bkmk
Capture the babies and give them up for adoption.
Cancel the tie to the parents and stop any chain migration.
The kids new parents will be citizens “somewhere.”
Keep all women with any heft in that area from entering the country.
Model “beach body” women, only.
>>people who come to the United States under “false pretenses” to give birth and secure citizenship for their child could be criminally charged under laws barring visa fraud, money laundering, identity theft and wire fraud.
Perhaps throw in “child trafficking”
Because this is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, to alter or end birthright citizenship, one of the following would have to occur:
Constitutional Amendment: This requires a two-thirds majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and subsequent ratification by at least three-quarters (38) of U.S. states.
Congressional Legislation: some conservative justices suggested Congress could hypothetically change immigration laws to restrict birthright citizenship for certain groups.It would have to pass a closely divided Congress.
It’s simple. Close the border hard, do not issue travel visas, resume deportations of illegals at warp speed.
That too. Be hard to enforce unless they are thin and far along.
Pretty much make it illegal for any women within the last trimester to enter the country. Make any such woman giving birth permanently banned from ever entering the USA again.
And yes this would include medical emergencies, no more foreigners flying to America for emergency medical care for pregnancies.
As for the children, send them to adoption agencies, they want to traffic in newborns, we may as well sell them to parents who actually want a child, not an anchor. Reasonable way to offset the costs.
Not hard at all, once the child is born we know they violated the law, personalty ban the woman from the USA and give the child up for adoption.
Ultimately congress would need to pass a law making it a crime for tourists to/illegal alien women to give birth in America with up to 18 years in prison or until a time their children are old enough to legally rescind their citizenship . I doubt congress cares Since most of them support the Great Replacement
There’s like 10k of these per year. Biden admin started cracking down on them in 2020.
The scumbags on the Supreme Court have now made it compulsory to separate families.
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