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Very, very clever GOP plan to end birthright tourism

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

Liberal activists and Trump-hating justices on the Supreme Court thought they dealt a permanent blow to President Donald Trump on Tuesday with their opinion that the Constitution demands birthright citizenship—that is, anyone born on U.S. soil automatically becomes a citizen of the United States. But President Trump and congressional Republicans have revealed a massive push to reverse the disastrous immigration decision and stop foreigners from invading the United States, one baby at a time.

In its last decision of the year,  Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s executive order disregarding birthright citizenship in a 6-3 opinion, claiming the 14th Amendment gives citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, possibly even terrorists. Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s liberals in the decision—with a partial concurrence and partial dissent from Brett Kavanaugh.

But Kavanaugh left MAGA supporters a possible lifeline: He wrote that, while the president cannot make law by executive order, Congress has pass laws restricting or ending birthright citizenship.

Now, President Trump and his Republican allies are ready to take the fight to the High Court.

“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President,” wrote President Trump on Truth Social shortly after the opinion. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!”

Congressional conservatives hit the ground running with a full-scale legislative agenda to end birthright tourism and the stealing of U.S. citizenship.

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced a bill to tackle the issue of anchor babies, the “Anchors Away Act.”

“We are literally going to be dropping ‘Anchors Away,’ which really pushes back against the Supreme Court,” Ogles told Fox News host Will Cain.

The text of the bill hadn’t been posted as of this writing, but The Horn has learned the details of what it would accomplish.

Ogles explained that his bill would tackle the problem in two ways.

First, the Anchors Away Act would classify any would-be immigrant who is pregnant as “inadmissible” to enter the United States.

Second, it would clarify that a baby is eligible for U.S. citizenship under the 14th Amendment only if one of his parents is a U.S. citizen, a permanent lawful alien, or “an alien with lawful status under the immigration laws performing active service in the armed forces.”

Ogles, one of the most conservative members of Congress, has made fixing the problem of mass immigration one of his top priorities. The Horn told you Ogles has introduced legislation to repeal numerous open borders provisions.

His fellow conservatives say, with Tuesday’s ruling, there no time to waste in protecting America from an avalanche of anchor babies, some of them from hostile countries like China.

“Congress must act immediately and must not hide behind the fiction that it must amend the Constitution to fix this abuse of our laws. To do otherwise would be an abject failure of the United States Congress,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas in a press statement. “Congress must…define the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ very specifically to make clear that citizenship is tied to the citizenship of the parent, not the soil.”

Senator Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., introduced a similar bill, without the provision for illegal aliens serving in the U.S. military.

So much for illegals crossing the border, dropping anchor, then feeding off America’s generous welfare system for generations.

But there is one problem with legislation: Only Justice Kavanaugh explicitly said Congress could pass laws affecting the topic. The other five justices seem to read birthright citizenship into the 14th Amendment.

“It remains unclear whether Justices Amy Coney Barrett or Chief Justice John Roberts would alter their positions, though there is little indication they would,” wrote Dmitri Bolt at Townhall.com. “If not, the Court’s majority would likely continue to uphold its current interpretation of birthright citizenship.”

The only other option would be a constitutional amendment banning birthright tourism and anchor babies—and Republicans are up to the task.

“I will be announcing a forthcoming constitutional amendment to…restore the original American understanding of citizenship” and “grant birthright citizenship to children born of parents domiciled in the United States while clearly excluding children born to foreign parents temporarily visiting the United States,” said Sen. Schmitt.

Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., was way ahead of him. The libertarian senator introduced a similar constitutional amendment (S.J.Res.189) on April 29 just in case this decision went the way it did.

But trying to amend the U.S. Constitution runs into two problems.

First, a constitutional amendment has to receive two-thirds of the vote in both Houses of Congress. Then, it must be ratified by three-quarters of the states. In an evenly divided country, no blue state will pass this amendment and likely no Democratic congressman will vote for it.

That leaves executive action, like the executive order that touched off this Supreme Court decision in the first place. But the Trump administration immediately sprang into action, laying out a brand new strategy to make sure America is taking every possible legal action to bust birthright scammers and protect U.S. citizenship.

The administration responded to the Supreme Court opinion almost instantly.

Two hours after the Supreme Court’s opinion, the Justice Department announced it plans to “prioritize the prosecutions of birth tourism schemes across the country. Actors seeking to exploit loopholes to obtain automatic citizenship for their children pose a national security threat and will be brought to justice.”

Before the close of business, the DOJ posted a memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Colin McDonald promising to bust anyone who lied on a visa to obtain U.S. citizenship and slap the networks facilitating the traffic with additional charges for money laundering, identity theft, wire fraud, and health care fraud.

And just to show it’s serious, the Trump administration announced it had made 10,000 new immigration arrests in the days before the decision.

“The Supreme Court ruling may not have gone the way many wanted it to, but that doesn’t mean nothing can be done,” wrote Bob Hoge at RedState.com. “Let’s roll, DOJ.”

As President Trump’s administration proves, additional border enforcement goes a long way. But forward-looking conservatives say that prosecuting immigration fraudsters after they break the law—and drop an anchor baby on U.S, soil—is no solution to birthright citizenship. And they say, until Congress passes a law, America has to take more serious options to deal with the problem.

“The State Department should IMMEDIATELY cease to give out visas to pregnant applicants. Sorry, Birth Tourism cannot continue,” said conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., on Tuesday.

Others suggested administering a pregnancy test to female visitors throughout their stay—and sending them home the moment it turns positive.

Still others suggest the U.S. should stop admitting all women to the United States.

Yet the most ambitious say there’s only one foolproof way to stop birthright citizenship: pass an immigration moratorium.

“Pause immigration. Just stop it.” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, during a congressional hearing Tuesday with the family of someone killed by an illegal alien. “This Congress should act to pause all immigration.”

The Supreme Court declared war on the Constitution and the American people, claiming that any Chinese Communist functionary can have a baby in a U.S. hospital, raise him in China, and produce a U.S. citizen equal to the ones who fought in Vietnam, lost a loved one in the War on Terror, or had a daughter raped and beheaded by MS-13.

According to Roberts, Kagan, and Jackson, the child born to an illegal MS-13 gang-banger is the legal equal of the child he murdered. Historically, Islamic jihadists murdered young men and raped women to replace the native-born population.

President Trump and congressional Republicans have a clear agenda and the backing of their party. They need to act before the anchor babies drag America into a watery grave.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”