The Supreme Court just heard arguments in a case (Trump v. Barbara) to determine whether we are a sovereign nation or whether any invaders can trespass in our nation and unilaterally assert jurisdiction to grab citizenship for their children.

Shockingly, there is no legal scholar alive who believes we have five votes against the maniacal theory that the 14th Amendment codifies anchor-baby citizenship of illegal aliens.

To eliminate the ability of the people to even debate the future membership of their society will spell the end of our country as a sovereign entity.

Rather than submitting to the Supreme Court, Trump must stake his presidency on the notion that Congress, not SCOTUS, has the final say on citizenship, and every fiber of his messaging and political capital should be expended toward shaming Republicans into passing a clarification of the law.

President Trump has already shown that he is willing to focus his attention singularly on one issue with his push for the SAVE Act. However, to the extent that we can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, fixing the debasement of citizenship itself is exponentially more important than preventing noncitizens from voting.

Although voting by noncitizens does unfortunately occur, it is relatively small compared to those who are given citizenship and vote legally when they should be disqualified.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, there were 225,000 to 250,000 births to illegal immigrants just in 2023. That is close to 7% of all births in the country and could account for several million new citizens over a decade. In addition, the CIS estimates that roughly 500,000 kids were born to temporary visa-holders over the past decade. Thus, fake citizens voting “legally” is a much graver concern than noncitizen voting.

This loophole is a sovereignty and security problem. The Chinese espionage machine exploits this loophole to bring in pregnant women, drop a baby, and grab citizenship on behalf of an enemy nation. Would we allow invading armies to bring their wives along for the ride and obtain citizenship too?

Whenever I challenge some friends to make broader immigration reform more important than the SAVE Act, which the right has chosen as its final hill to die on, the retort I get is that SAVE has simplicity of messaging. However, nothing beats the message that illegal invaders should not be able to come here against the national will and steal citizenship from the nation.

An immigration reform bill to stop granting citizenship to those here illegally and those born to temporary visa-holders should be coupled with a bill to ensure that illegal aliens are not counted in the Census. Some estimates project that counting noncitizens in the Census has shifted 17 House seats.

This is a much more consequential form of voter fraud. And unlike voter registration, it’s fully under federal control. I’m all for the SAVE Act, but let’s be honest: Blue states will not enforce it in the long run, especially under a Democrat president.

So what should the president do? He must preemptively build the case that even to the extent one agrees with the Wong Kim Ark decision on birthright citizenship, it can only apply to those domiciled here on a permanent basis, not illegal aliens or temporary visitors. And to the extent that there is a dispute, it is up to Congress, not SCOTUS, to decide.

It’s important to remember that the 14th Amendment itself, under Section 5, grants Congress the power to enforce the provisions of the amendment. To interpret it in a superfluous fashion that would void an entire enumerated power is absurd in light of the power of Congress to interpret the amendment itself.

Certainly, in any case of ambiguity, we must err on the side of caution not to strip the consent to citizenship away from the society and its representatives.

Congress clearly has the authority to interpret the scope of jurisdiction any given class of immigrants have and can pass laws clarifying in which instances their children are entitled to citizenship. After all, Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress plenary power over naturalizations.

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Unless there would be no way to read the plain language of the 14th Amendment other than a mandate based upon territorial jurisdiction instead of political jurisdiction (before 1898, nobody read it this way), it is simply imprudent to interpret it in the most stringent way. Doing so would have the effect of almost completely voiding an enumerated power of the people’s representatives.

If Congress is powerless to prevent people from coming here and stealing citizenship, that would mean Congress does not control the power over naturalization.

The operative paragraph of the Ark opinion establishing birthright citizenship for children born to immigrant parents qualifies that they “are entitled to the protection of, and owe allegiance to, the United States,” but only “so long as they are permitted by the United States to reside here.” If they are not permitted to reside here, which is the subject addressed in Trump’s birthright order, then all bets are off.

We will always have social disagreements on immigration as a matter of policy, but to eliminate the ability of the people to even debate the future membership of their society will spell the end of our country as a sovereign entity. To create an affirmative right to immigrate and remain in the country against the national will represents that most profound usurpation of a nation’s sovereignty.

During the debate over the 14th Amendment in 1866, Rep. James F. Wilson (R-Iowa) emphasized that the amendment was “establishing no new right, declaring no new principle.” He reiterated, “It is not the object of this bill to establish new rights, but to protect and enforce those which belong to every citizen.” How tragic for us to now create the ultimate novel right for foreigners that strips the sovereignty from every citizen.

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President Donald Trump has announced that Operation Epic Fury is “nearing completion” as the military operation against Iran approaches its fifth week.

During his address to the nation Wednesday night, Trump recapped the United States’ progress in the region, aiming to reassure Americans that the conflict would soon draw to a close. Notably, Trump did not indicate whether the United States would put boots on the ground in the region.

‘The hard part is done.’

Trump reiterated the objectives of the operation, including destroying Iran’s air force and navy, debilitating its missile capabilities, and preventing the country from developing nuclear weapons.

“Tonight, I’m pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are nearing completion,” Trump said. “As we celebrate this progress, we think especially of the 13 American warriors who have laid down their lives in this fight to prevent our children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran.”

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Trump also echoed the updates he provided throughout the week, urging European allies burdened by the oil crisis to buy American oil and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz themselves.

“The hard part is done, so it should be easy,” Trump said. “And in any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally.”

Although it is still unclear who in Iran the United States is negotiating with and the status of those negotiations, Trump said that he is on track to “get rid of a cancer that has long simmered.”

“It’s known as the nuclear Iran,” Trump said. “And they didn’t know what was coming. They never imagined it.”

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Wisconsin police released video of a suspect in the stabbing death of a woman at her Kenosha home on Wednesday.

Kenosha police said they were called to the home near 75th Street and 22nd Avenue for a welfare check on a woman. Her friend told police that her estranged husband had been getting physical with her.

‘I never would have thought nothing of it. He seemed like a cool dude, held the door, he came in with his kids.’

The man identified as Marckus Plaza was seen by police dragging a body in the home.

When they spoke to Plaza, he gave them a fake name, and after they gained entry into the home, he was seen hopping a fence to escape.

The woman was found in the basement stabbed to death, according to police. They also found a phone that was bent in half.

Inside the home were her two children.

Police said Plaza escaped on foot and is looking to find transportation to flee from the area. They described him as a black man weighing about 190 pounds with a height of 5’6″. When last seen, he was wearing dark-colored sweatpants and a white tank top.

They also released a video of the man hopping a fence into what appears to be a neighbor’s yard to escape police.

WDJT-TV reported that court documents indicated the woman had obtained a restraining order against Plaza.

He is charged with first-degree intentional homicide using a dangerous weapon.

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A resident of the area said he had encountered Plaza before the incident.

“I’ve seen him at the gas station before,” Bobby Johnson said. “I never would have thought nothing of it. He seemed like a cool dude, held the door, he came in with his kids.”

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When conservative mother Isabel Brown spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference, she used the platform to champion having more children — a cause BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” can easily get behind.

However, not everyone appreciated Brown’s stance, particularly the women of “The View.”

“I think it’s just really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children when you now know, in this country, there’s this affordability crisis. And for a two-person household, a married household, you need over $400,000 for child care,” Sunny Hostin explained to the panel.

Hostin went on to claim that Brown was “advocating for people to be born into poverty,” where those children will not be educated, housed, or fed.

“At the same time … this government is cutting all of the services that would allow people to have families and big families,” she added.

Stuckey calls Hostin’s statement “over-the-top, inaccurate, and absurd.”

“No one said that having children comes without sacrifices and comes without some form of what people may call inconvenience. But the idea that you have to be making almost half a million dollars a year to be able to just survive with children is absurd,” she says.

“It’s not true today. It has never been true in all of history,” she adds.

But Hostin wasn’t the only one on the panel who criticized Brown’s statement.

“I gave our girl Isabel a little Google,” Whitney Cummings said. “She has a baby. She has a 1-year-old. Of course, she thinks everyone should have a lot of kids. She has a 1-year-old that sleeps all day.”

“I also was like, ‘I’m going to have a bunch more kids.’ Wait till your kid is up and walking and you spend most of your day trying to get its shoes on. You’re probably going to rethink how many kids you have,” Cummings added.

“I must be doing motherhood wrong because, see, my 1-year-olds were awake all day, and they took a nap for a couple hours in the afternoon, but they were awake. Are you thinking about a 1-month-old? A 1-year-old is a toddler,” Stuckey responds.

“Having a 1-year-old is, like, one of the most challenging times because they’re so mobile, they’re so energetic, and yet they can’t just sit there and be entertained by a book for very long. And so, that’s crazy,” she continues.

Stuckey, who has three children of her own, believes that Hostin and Cummings are actually just placing convenience and luxury over children — much like other women in the “child-free movement.”

Stuckey plays a clip one woman posted on TikTok of herself discussing how wonderful it is to lie around all day and prioritize her own needs instead of having children.

“That’s such a superficial and selfish reason not to have kids,” she says.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is urging Dallas County to honor a detainer request lodged against an illegal alien accused of possessing child pornography, according to a press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News.

Orvin Bayardo Fuentes Borjas, 24, was arrested by the Irving Police Department and booked into the Dallas County jail system on March 6 after he was charged with possession of child pornography — over 50 visual depictions, a first-degree felony.

‘Every single day, ICE is working to remove criminal illegal aliens like this sicko arrested for possession of 50 child pornography images.’

Fuentes Borjas’ bond was set at $100,000.

The Irving Journal, a local news outlet, reported that a tip about Fuentes Borjas’ alleged online activity led to his arrest.

A press release from the Department of Homeland Security revealed that ICE issued an arrest detainer against Fuentes Borjas. ICE is urging Dallas County not to release the suspect from local custody to allow agents time to transfer him to federal custody.

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The DHS described Fuentes Borjas as an illegal alien from Honduras.

“He was booked into Dallas County Jail, where he will remain until ICE takes him into custody,” the agency wrote.

The DHS claimed that the suspect previously failed to show up for his immigration hearing and was issued a final order of removal on February 3, 2020.

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“Every single day, ICE is working to remove criminal illegal aliens like this sicko arrested for possession of 50 child pornography images. ICE asked Dallas to not release this pedophile from jail back into Texas communities,” DHS acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said.

Bis stated that under President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s leadership, “ICE law enforcement will not allow criminal illegal aliens to prey on innocent children.”

The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office does not participate in ICE’s 287(g) partnership program, according to ICE’s website. However, Texas law requires law enforcement agencies to comply with ICE detainer requests.

“To keep predators like these out of our communities, it is imperative that local law enforcement works with ICE — Irving did its job here, but more must be done to ramp up removals. Municipalities across the board participating in the 287(g) Task Force program would be the surest way to make that a reality,” Irving City Council member Luis Canosa told Blaze News.

The Irving Police Department declined to comment. The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to a request for comment.

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