“Birthright citizenship” may sound benign, but thanks to an overreaching Supreme Court decision 126 years ago, it’s the biggest legal hole in our border.
President-elect Donald Trump has the opportunity to seal it, but it won’t be easy.
When the Supreme Court handed down its United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision in 1898, illegal immigration was nothing like the crisis it is now.
And the subject of that case, Wong Kim Ark, was the son of legal immigrants — permanent residents, in fact.
But in the 21st century, liberal legal experts insist the court’s ruling now means any child born on American soil is automatically a citizen.
Convicts fleeing across our borders?
Tren de Aragua killers?
Terrorists sneaking into the country?
Their kids all become Americans if they’re born on our soil.
It’s an outrageous, absurd situation, and Trump has vowed to stop it.
He renewed that vow on “Meet the Press” Sunday — “we’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous,” he told host Kristen Welker.
Birthright citizenship at present is so ridiculous, it even gives children of illegal immigrants rights that naturalized citizens — and some Americans born to citizen parents — don’t have.