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Trump posted this.
Trump’s efforts to reverse birthright citizenship may succeed with or without SCOTUS:
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trumps-efforts-reverse-birthright-citizenship-can-succeed-or-without-scotus
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116839303401655480
We lost. Just announced Trump v Barbara
Bills only work if R’s maintain control of both Senate and House AND MAGA dominates both.
The SC descisions today are a giant red flag that demonstrates the destruction wrought by a legislature unwilling to legislate. The court mini majority has opted to rule by the “letter of the law,” not the actual “intent of the law.”
“Congress must act!”
John Thune.
Will history name him as “The One Man” that brought down the most free and people loving country to communism because of his hatred for President Trump. Blissfully ignoring over 80% of the U.S. voters wanting it to pass to keep their country free of corrupt elections.
John Thune.
One man alone, that could have prevented the U.S. fall to communism by simply changing the filibuster rule to allow a simple majority vote to pass the SAVE Act ensuring election integrity. This man sent the Senate on a 19 day vacation while the Socialist/Communist Dems are potentially working feverishly to cheat beyond all boundaries to steal and create bogus votes, knowing that they now have free rein to do so.
John Thune.
Thune will go down in history as the “one man” that could have, but would not save the greatest country on earth from a communist takeover.
How tall and proud he stands in his hatred for President Trump. The numbers are not there, he and his posse gloat and claim. It is said there are 50 yes votes available and without the filibuster, plus the tie breaking vote of VP Vance, the SAVE Act will pass.
The Supreme Court decided that Congress and Senate must create a federal law to address mail in ballots and Voter ID. The Congress has already passed a law. It is John Thune, the Senate Leader, who is passing the blame to other Senators for not doing so. Meanwhile he has in his power two options to get it passed.
John Thune.
Please bring the Senate back sir. Bring it back right after the July 4th holiday and get the SAVE Act passed. Don’t be that “ ONE MAN” in history . It is unbecoming of a Senate leader of a free nation.
If they are in “recess” can’t President Trump make his recess appointments?
They hold a pro forma session for a few minutes, then adjourn for the day.
Wethal…
Doesn’t this normally only occur when Senate is controlled
by the opposite Party?
They have some fraud ongoing that keeps the Senate in session even though they are gone.
And they ALL unanimously support this fraud through unanimous silence.
BTW Supremes ruled that recesses had to be 10 days or longer or recess appointment is invalid.
Illegal immigration has destroyed California. We’ve become Central America here and those of us who are non-Hispanic feel like foreigners in our own country now.
Not surprised the Deep State controlled Supreme Court ruled this way. I don’t know how you can make anything positive out of this ruling. The next Democrat president just got the green light to open the borders again! God Bless the end of America! 🙄👎😡
Islamists are a much larger threat. They are anti Christianity and their goal is to destroy Western civilization.
It is both, for some overlapping, and some different reasons.
Nina Totenberg of NPR posted that Alito was retiring.
SCOTUS” Public Information Office just said this was not true.
NPR post has been taken down.
Alito is not retiring.
Ignore the reports that say he is.
I ignore everything the commies at NPR spew from their seditious traps.
True, but sometimes her posts get picked up by other news media.
All the Haitians and Syrians who were here under TPS and had kids can likely stay now.
Cue the “Separation of families” cries from the lefties if Trump tries to deport the parents.
All the Haitians and Syrians who were here under TPS can now apply for asylum, a green card, etc. They will die of old age here!
They can apply, but the applications can be denied. Trump replaced a lot of immigration judges.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5550915/trump-immigration-judges
Who says they have to die of old age?
Do the math …. The Supreme Court just set the table for 2026 and 2028.
The late arriving BALLOTS being counted … until the desired results are achieved.
Defining Birthright Citizenship as anybody birthed inside the US despite the status of their parents.
Impact: Consider that Joe Biden’s Auto-Pen legitimized the RESIDENT and GREEN CARD like status of every immigrant … legal and illegal who was in the US as of 20 January 2025. The Courts have delayed decisions on President Trump’s efforts to remove the Auto-Pen EO’s (that’s right NO legislation was ever put in place supporting the Auto-Pen).
So …. for 2026 there are NOW 15-25 MILLION Obama-DACA’s and those who entered before 2020 are now VOTING US Citizens. (25 Million is Schumer’s number)
For 2028 … all those who entered and still in the US .. as well as here LEGALLY per the Auto-Pen become Voting Citizens … and kids of the DACA’s start reaching VOTING AGE … another 15-25 MILLION VOTERS-BALLOTS more join the DACA BALLOTS. This is nearly a 40-50 MILLION BALLOTS distributed across the US.
Plus, now consider the impact on reallocation of seats in the House of Representatives … this alone counters any redistricting by the “republicans” … because ALL are counted .. not just voters … it is no exaggeration to say this includes nearly 100 MILLION Residents.
GOPe does not want elections to be determined by actual physical votes of US citizens. And SCOTUS is in support.
In other words, the IC demands that they continue to select our leaders
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/30/politics/live-news/supreme-court-cases-news
Allows birthright citizenship…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-suffers-major-supreme-court-defeat-justices-uphold-birthright-citizenship
Barrett and Roberts are traitors.
I won’t live to see the USA celebrate 300 and I doubt if the USA will live to see it too.
Thankfully I will not either, Would Hate to live to see it.
In addition to ending birth tourism by restricting visas for countries pushing this, there should also be an end to chain immigration, which came in in the 1965 Immigration Reform Act.
This Act, one of which’s advocate was then Dem Rep from MA Teddy Kennedy, allowed citizens here to bring in family members, who, when they got citizenship, would bring in…
Even if the birth tourism babies show up from their parents’ countries in 18 years , they should not be allowed to sponsor family members who would not qualify under merit immigration by themselves.
Roberts and Barrett again.
What are the dangers to a nation of women illegally in that nation or present as a tourist or on a temporary visa being able to birth children who are automatically deemed to be citizens of that nation even when the fathers are also not citizens of that nation?
Grok:
The primary concerns center on sovereignty, incentives for uncontrolled migration, fiscal burdens, demographic pressures, integration challenges, and national security. These are debated fiercely, with data varying by source (e.g., restrictionist groups like CIS/Heritage vs. open-migration advocates like Cato/MPI). Most countries worldwide reject unconditional *jus soli* (birthright citizenship by soil) for children of non-citizens, favoring *jus sanguinis* (by blood/parental citizenship) or conditional versions.
1. Erosion of Sovereignty and Immigration Control
Granting automatic citizenship to children of illegal entrants, tourists, or temporary visa holders (e.g., students, workers) bypasses a nation’s ability to control its membership. Parents not “subject to the full jurisdiction” of the host country (owing primary allegiance elsewhere) can still confer citizenship benefits.
– This creates “anchor” effects: Citizen children complicate deportations (though parents remain deportable legally). At age 21, the child can sponsor parents/siblings for legal status, creating chain migration outside normal quotas.
– Birth tourism: Foreign nationals (often from China, Russia, etc.) enter on visas specifically to give birth, securing citizenship advantages (passport, future benefits, education). Estimates for the US: ~22k–36k annually from tourist visas alone, plus more from illegals/temporary stays. Industries in source countries advertise packages costing tens of thousands.
– Nations lose consent-based membership. Historical intent (e.g., US 14th Amendment post-slavery) targeted those under full political jurisdiction, not transients or violators. Most of Europe, Asia, and elsewhere reformed away from broad *jus soli* (UK 1983, Ireland 2005, Australia/NZ shifts, Dominican Republic restrictions).
Critics argue this undermines rule of law: illegal presence is rewarded, encouraging more crossings/overstays.
2. Fiscal and Economic Burdens
Citizen children access public benefits (education K-12, emergency Medicaid, etc.), while parents may draw indirect support or stay longer. Low-skilled migrant households often show net fiscal drains over lifetimes (taxes vs. services), per National Academies and CIS analyses—education and welfare costs hit early.
– Taxpayer costs for births, schooling, healthcare. Opponents highlight uncompensated hospital care and long-term entitlements.
– Counter: Proponents (e.g., some economic models) project high lifetime GDP contributions from citizen children (~$7.7T cumulative in one US estimate), citing education access and workforce participation. However, this assumes successful integration and ignores opportunity costs or displacement effects on natives.
– Broader strain on welfare states in high-immigration contexts. Temporary visitors impose costs without long-term reciprocity.
3. Demographic and Cultural Cohesion Risks
Unrestricted policy accelerates population change via migration + higher fertility among some migrant groups. Without strong assimilation, this can create parallel societies, reduced social trust, and political fragmentation (Putnam’s diversity research, European examples of integration failures).
– Children may identify with parental culture/nationality, especially if dual citizenship is allowed. Large-scale inflows (hundreds of thousands annually in big nations) challenge language, values, and national identity.
– Evidence from Europe: Pre-reform *jus soli* linked to “parallel societies,” higher crime/radicalism in some non-citizen cohorts; conditional reforms sometimes improved outcomes.
– Long-term: Shifts voting patterns, policy preferences (e.g., toward more open immigration), straining cohesion in homogeneous or high-trust societies.
4. Security and Exploitation Risks
– Hostile actors: Birth tourism from adversarial nations (e.g., China, Russia) could create sleeper networks with citizen passports for travel, banking, influence. US Senate probes found organized schemes with visa fraud.
– Statelessness/underclass counter-risk: Ending it could create undocumented children (potentially millions projected in US models), raising humanitarian issues, enforcement costs, and a marginalized population prone to exploitation.
– Dual loyalty or divided allegiance in conflicts.
5. International Context and Alternatives
Only ~30–35 countries grant unconditional *jus soli*, mostly Americas (US, Canada, much of Latin America). Europe/Asia predominantly use parental citizenship + residency requirements. Nations like Germany added conditional *jus soli* for better integration. Reforming (e.g., requiring legal permanent resident parents) aligns with global norms, deters tourism/illegal incentives, while protecting genuine cases via naturalization.
Empirical trade-offs exist: Proponents emphasize humanitarian/economic upsides and assimilation; critics focus on perverse incentives, costs, and loss of control. Data debates persist (birth tourism scale, net fiscal impact). Many nations manage migration better by tying citizenship to parental status and integration, avoiding automatic transmission to transients. Unrestricted policy maximizes openness but risks long-term sustainability in welfare democracies facing mass low-skilled inflows. Policy depends on a nation’s values, capacity, and goals for identity and resources.
so the court ruled yesterday that states can count ballots until the cows come home. That’s the clickbait headline, but under that contained in the ruling was a simple solution….. congress can fix this easily with a new law. Ditto for electronic voting machines, ditto for mail-in voting, ditto for ballot drop boxes and vote harvesting. Ditto for all of the fraud techniques that have been slowly deployed over the past 20 years in nearly every state.
The GOP won’t even pass a simple, sensible voter ID law. Anyone really think they will fix these other fraudulent processes? Of course not. We have the house and the senate and the WH and nothing has been done except business as usual and even that is iffy.
You still think your GOP is the “lesser of two evils”? If you do why? For people that say we just need to elect more MAGA. True on the surface, but the timeclock isn’t infinite here. The 2026 midterms will likely totally blunt Trump and the 2028 presidential election might finish the job on our ability to ever take back the country.
If you don’t already hate the GOP, you will on Nov 4th…… they are much worse than you have ever thought they are…….much worse
The SAVE Act would require all ballots be received by election day to be counted.
True. But really, it is more that the GOP isn’t real; simply doesn’t exist.
It is just a group of Democrats with a different name plate.
Trump is already going after the birth tourism racket.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-admin-puts-alleged-birth-233547674.html
He should do something about the Chinese going to the Northern Marianas. Obama waived visas for Chinese for this US terriory.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-news/us-territory-where-thousands-of-chinese-moms-give-birth-to-american-babies/
Not surprised at all. This was coming because the SC did not want to be the ones to deny this nor to be the instrument that sends home immigrants of any status. They are cowards of the first order, but we knew that. How Roe ever got overturned is a mystery.
Now the question is will the Congress pass legislation tightening the requirements for birth right citizenship. So the child born here has automatic citizenship but there can be a lot of additions and restrictions on that.
Child must be accompanied by immediate family (mom and dad and siblings) who do not get automatic citizenship but must apply for it and go through the entire process and live here with the child from birth. Child must live in the USA from birth. Child must NOT have dual citizenship. Child has to live in USA for so many years, say 20, after age 21 before they can run for any federal office but cannot run for VP or P as stated in the Constitution because they are not NATURAL BORN citizens(another thorny issue that needs defining by the SC). No extended family can come and be US citizens with the child. No special entry for Grandparents, aunts uncles cousins.
Many things can be placed onto this birth right citizenship horrible ruling. The only issue is making it stick if a democrat is Pres. or if the Dems control Congress. The SC really gave the middle finger to America and the Constitution with this one and the one yesterday. Don’t give up though. There are solutions and remember God must have a plan for all this to work out. Meanwhile, those justices who voted for this now will pay a heavy price for harming this nation with a huge hit by them today.
KEEP FIGHTING.
So let me get this straight-
The Supreme Court just basically gave the green light to mail-in ballot fraud by allowing blue states to count votes as long as they deem necessary After election DAY?
AND
People who break the law and illegally enter our country or are just visiting our country and have a child- the child is automatically a US citizen ?
Seems like a one-two punch to destroy our sovereignty as a nation.
And our only recourse is a feckless Congress.
Just wow…..