Posted on 07/01/2026 7:56:01 PM PDT by Red Badger
Tuesday's birthright citizenship ruling by the Supreme Court has provided Americans with the answer to an ever-pertinent question -- who is an American citizen?
Debates likely won't cease as the highest court in the land issued a 6-3 ruling on President Donald Trump's executive order -- issued his first day back in office on Jan. 20, 2025 -- saying the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution only grants birthright citizenship to persons who have at least one parent that is a permanent resident or citizen.
The court struck down this order, effectively saying that anyone born here under any circumstances whatsoever is a citizen.
That leads us to Illinois Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez. The circumstances of her birth are an example as to how this ruling is going to turn out when looking to the next generation of public officials.
In an article on Ramirez from January 2023, CNN noted her mother crossed the Rio Grande River when she was pregnant. Ramirez would be born into a family of Guatemalan immigrants on June 2, 1983, in Chicago, Illinois. In other words, her mother was an illegal alien and had a baby here that became a citizen anyway.
Now serving in Congress, you would imagine Ramirez would take every opportunity to express her patriotism, putting America first, but it's just the opposite.
In August 2025, Gateway Pundit reported that Ramirez attended a Panamerican Congress in Mexico City where she told the audience -- in Spanish -- that she's a Guatemalan before an American. Conservative news outlet The Blaze posted the footage to social media platform X.
Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez at a summit in Mexico City this weekend tells the audience while speaking in Spanish: "I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American." pic.twitter.com/ctJs5QhFLh
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) August 4, 2025
A month later, Ramirez took the death of a 21-year-old black student at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, to lecture her followers on the United States' history on race.
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Real hateriotism right there.
I like your new word. 👍
Apparently Samuel Short thinks people born to legal immigrants and people are already in this country are all saints and great people. They don’t trash talk America.
You have some that are not born to an illegal immigrants that want to sterilize foreign visitors and ban women from entering the country.
Typical useless leftist human debris
Please share as you see fit. It is appropriate in so many instances these days. And it is exactly the fact. Have a great 4th of July.
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She ate her children.....
In 18 years, our military could be mostly Chinese...
Legislation is needed to prevent immigrants from holding any elective office in the USA.
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