It’s finally happening! On Friday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments from the DOJ and liberal attorneys general on a challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end America’s anchor baby policy, also known as “birthright citizenship.” To say that the hearing was a disaster for open-border globalists would be an understatement. The only question now is whether the final ruling will be a 7-2 or 6-3 decision in favor of abolishing the insane anchor baby policy.
The anchor baby policy is one of the most abused loopholes in American immigration policy. This policy has nothing to do with the 14th Amendment. Congress never passed any law asserting that babies born to illegal aliens receive automatic American citizenship. No president ever signed it into law.
The whole anchor baby fraud was implemented in the 1980s as a bureaucratic policy by the Deep State. A Supreme Court Justice inserted a footnote into one case stating that it’s hard to tell the difference between a child born to illegal aliens and a child born to Americans. Footnotes in Supreme Court decisions do not have the force of law. They’re not even considered to carry any weight in terms of the final ruling.
Footnotes are simply like historical notes that Justices sometimes leave when they feel like waxing poetic. They don’t carry the force of law behind them.
But bureaucratic career attorneys at the INS during the Reagan administration looked at that footnote and said, “Eureka!!” That was the beginning of the anchor baby policy.
Suddenly, for the first time in American history, babies born to foreign criminals who had illegally breached our sovereign borders were granted US citizenship at the moment of birth. As a consequence of this new policy, the illegal alien parents were shielded from deportation and entitled to every welfare benefit that Americans can apply for and receive. Not to mention IRS tax refunds, since the parents always take jobs for cash under the table and technically have “no income.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch asked the progressive AGs a question on Friday that cuts through all the noise.
“Show me the case where we have decided this question.”
In other words, in what specific case has the US Supreme Court ever determined that the 14th Amendment explicitly applies to the babies born to criminal aliens? The progressive AGs were stumped because there is no such case.
The 14th Amendment was always intended to prevent Democrats from deporting the babies of newly freed slaves during Reconstruction by granting them American citizenship. The amendment explicitly states that babies born to diplomats in the US are excluded from citizenship. It’s impossible to imagine that the framers of the amendment intended to exclude the children of foreign diplomats but wanted the babies of illegal border crossers to count as “Americans.”
It’s hard to understate what a positive effect it will have on the United States if the Supreme Court ultimately allows President Trump to abolish the anchor baby policy. Chain migration will basically come to an end overnight. When an anchor baby is born, the parents are automatically shielded from deportation. Then, immigration bureaucrats allow the grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins of that baby to move to the US. If you oppose this, you get called a bigot for “trying to separate families.”
The taxpayers are then on the hook for every welfare benefit and entitlement that all of the anchor baby’s relatives apply for. This adds up to tens of billions of dollars annually.
If the Supreme Court nukes the anchor baby policy, Democrats would immediately lose three members of Congress. Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA) is an anchor baby. So is Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL). The same goes for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), who was indicted a few days ago on federal charges for allegedly ripping off $5 million in FEMA funds during COVID.
American citizenship is required for all members of the House of Representatives and the US Senate. If the Supreme Court rules that the anchor baby policy has always been unconstitutional (which it has), those three Democrats are automatically disqualified from serving in Congress. They’re not Americans!
Friday’s Supreme Court hearing was a very bad day for the progressives. Even Justice Elena Kagan admitted that the court is in “largely uncharted” legal territory. The high court is expected to issue a final ruling in June or July next year.