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Let's get into it:
We were right. The Supreme Court shut down Trump's EO that sought to end, marking an end to birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants. The vote was 5-4, or 6-3, depending on who you're asking, which bucked what many thought would be a 9-0 decision against Trump. Roberts wrote the opinion, joined by Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, Jackson and in part, Kavanaugh.
In the dissent were Thomas, who penned an eloquent argument on what it means to be an American, joined by Alito and Gorsuch. But Kavanaugh also dissented in part, saying that Trump's EO was not a violation of the 14th Amendment, which created birthright citizenship after the Civil War, but it was in violation of a statute enacted by Congress.
In so doing, Kavanaugh basically left the door open for Congress to put an end to birthright citizenship for the children of those who are only temporarily in the United States. He said that the Executive Order from Trump "establishes new exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country" and that those set forth in the 14th Amendment were not necessarily a closed set of exceptions.
Trump essentially added to that set, said Kavanaugh, including "children born to foreign citizens who are either illegally or temporarily in the United States" to the list of those who are not eligible for birthright citizenship. He said that it was Congress' statute based on the 1898 Supreme Court case Wong King Ark that limited the exceptions, not the 14th Amendment, and that Congress could amend its statute "or otherwise enact new legislation to encompass those two new exceptions."
Good luck with that, though. Congress doesn't seem to be able to do anything that people actually want, which is bats, since it's the People's House. In light of this ruling, it seems clear to me that birth tourism companies must be shut down entirely and their purveyors sentenced to life prison terms—they are profiting off the sale of citizenship, and that should never happen. The DOJ said that they would prosecute fully. And I hope they do.
One congressman already said pregnant women should be stopped at the border. At the very least, borders must be secure, illegal immigrants should be sent home, asylum seekers must remain in Mexico while waiting for their court dates, and refugees must be fully vetted. Trump congratulated China's Xi Jinping on "their massive birthright citizenship win."
As for Thomas, I urge you to read his entire dissent, because it's really fascinating. He said that to be an American means: to have "no other homeland," to owe "no allegiance to any foreign power," and to be "subject to no other authority." The same could not be said for the "children of foreign temporary visitors," he went on to say. "Foreign temporary visitors were attached to their home country, lacked similar bonds to this country, and would not be called upon in time of war. Americans, consistent with their settler ethos, believed that citizens were the people who called a place home."
Libby