The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling that anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions, is a citizen.
“Temporary” would mean anyone who is not a permanent resident, but is in the country legally. So people on tourist or work visas. “Birth tourism” is a real thing, though nowhere near common enough to be an actual problem that justifies ending birthright citizenship.
Yes birth tourism is a real thing, but I don’t trust this regime to limit the scope of their misdeeds and not weaponize them.
I can not afford to give them a benefit of the doubt.