Posted on 02/08/2025 5:41:31 AM PST by Libloather
America First Legal filed two amicus briefs this week in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
The firm filed the briefs on behalf of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and 17 other committee members.
Despite there being nearly two dozen Democrat-run states and civil rights groups suing to stop the order and two federal judges ruling to temporarily block it, America First is arguing that there is a clear constitutional basis for denying citizenship to illegal migrants who have broken the country’s immigration laws.
Trump’s order titled "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship" states that "the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States" when that person’s parents are either unlawfully present in the U.S. or when the parents’ presence is lawful but temporary.
The briefs — which were filed in the federal courts for the Western District of Washington and the District of Massachusetts — argue that based on the "text and history" of the 14th Amendment, the Constitution does not confer citizenship on the children of unlawfully present aliens. The briefs claim that citizenship in the U.S. is a political right, not an automatic entitlement.
The 14th Amendment was passed in 1868 and was designed to extend citizenship to African-American former slaves. The amendment states that "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."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
💯.
Your right it’s why this is happening.
Democrat-run states and civil rights groups suing to stop the order and two federal judges ruling to temporarily block it.
From their pens to GOD’S EARS!!
An illegal alien is not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S.
They are purposefully outside jurisdiction, having broken the law.
If they first clearly get right with the law, then they are “subject to the jurisdiction”, and we can continue the conversation.
But while illegal,they have only one right:
DEPORTATION!!
This the legal foundation Stephen Miller started after Trump’s first term.
Exactly as it should be.
WE ALSO NEED CLEAR & DEFINED SQUATTERS LAWS-—SOONER RATHER THAN LATER
At the same time Trump is on his way to forcing SCOTUS to admit that being born a citizen in the United States solely by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution means that you are NOT a Natural Born Citizen of the United States.
It is a heroic effort, but I doubt it makes much of an impression on our idiot courts.
They have been taught incorrectly for so long, that they are simply unable to process the possibility that they have understood it incorrectly for over a century.
“The law is clear, ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ means the law is supreme, and that no one is above the law or benefit from breaking the law. The nationality of any offspring born here will be that of its mother unless both agree.
The offspring born here of legally present foreign mothers are not citizens at birth but can become naturalized citizens if, or when, at least one parent becomes a Green Card/naturalized citizen within a time certain.
Any child born in the U.S. to a legally alien parent who does not naturalize before the child turns 21 may be eligible for a Green Card or citizenship.
And while we are at it: two U.S. Citizen-parents are required to be a natural born Citizen under Art. II, §1, Cl. 5.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.