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An extremely bad Supreme Court decision coinciding with an international soccer tournament and a blockbuster Hollywood movie show that U.S. citizenship no longer belongs to us, but to the entire world. In Trump v. Barbara, the John Roberts SCOTUS Majority declared on June 30 that any child, regardless of his parents’ citizenship, legal status or residency, is a U.S. citizen. During the 2026 FIFA World Cup U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun was a media poster child for automatic birthright citizenship. Time magazine ran an article entitled “The U.S. Can Thank Birthright Citizenship for Its Best World Cup Player.” Frankly, having...

The international attention given to the Denmark Controversy (not the subject of this article) is an opportunity to look at Danish immigration policies. Denmark has some of the toughest immigration policies in the Western world — arguably the best, with the exception of the Visegrad countries, which don’t have much immigration to begin with. Consider this: Mette Frederiksen, current prime minister of Denmark, is not a right-winger, but a member of the center-left Social Democrat party (Socialdemokratiet) . Nevertheless, her party was elected in 2019 on a platform which included stricter immigration policies. In January of 2021, Prime Minister Frederiksen...