In America, We The People are the sovereign citizens. Our sovereign power flows from God to us. We grant power to our federal and state governments through the borrowing agreement called the United States Constitution.
This is radically different from Britain, from which we escaped, where the king or queen has sovereign power – and hands out sovereign crumbs to appease their subjects through documents like the Magna Carta. Our most crucial sovereign power, as We The People, controls our borders and population. We have never given this power away to unelected judges. Not with our founding and the passage of the Fifth Amendment. Not after the Civil War and the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. Not in the next congress. Certainly not after the last elections. Judges simply do not have the power to steal We The People’s sovereign power to control our borders and population. This includes the crucial issue of birthright.
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The Fourteenth Amendment, enacted after the Civil War to guarantee citizenship to freed slaves and their descendants, dictates that those under the jurisdiction of the United States receive birthright citizenship. In recent decades, this phrase has taken on an absurd meaning that is incorrect and encourages illegal immigration. Like the children of foreign ambassadors or invading armies, illegal immigrants are not under the jurisdiction of the United States. Rather, they are foreign citizens subject to the jurisdiction of their home country. For this reason, illegal immigrants cannot serve in the military or government. Instead, they come to the United States and get jobs in secret, paid under the table, to avoid detection.
Protesters hold up an anti-Trump sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC on June 27, 2025. (ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
The Supreme Court has previously ruled Elk v. Wilkins (1884) that the Fourteenth Amendment birthright law did not apply to the children of American Indians. Congress then passed a statute granting them birthright citizenship. Answer this positive question: If birthright law under the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to American Indians, in what world would it apply to illegal aliens? That is simply not the case.
If illegal immigrants are not under the jurisdiction of the United States, there is no point in their children being. If a child is born abroad to American parents, that child is still American; For example, many military children are born abroad. Logically, the reverse should also be true.
Olga Urbina and her nine-month-old son Ares Webster participate in a protest outside the Supreme Court on May 15, 2025, over President Donald Trump’s decision to end birthright rights. (Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images)
President Trump, who has the same level-headed view on this issue, signed an executive order on January 20. The order requires that children born to illegal immigrant mothers and mothers who are lawfully here on a temporary basis are not entitled to citizenship unless a child’s father is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. This order does not affect children already born here; rather, it only applies to children born 30 days after the order goes into effect.
If birthright law under the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to American Indians, in what world would it apply to illegal aliens?
The order is yet to come into effect as several courts have ordered it immediately. In June this year, the Supreme Court drastically restricted the issuance of nationwide injunctions Trump vs. CASA; However, district judges continued to impose the executive order on the grounds that both groups of plaintiffs with the same common question — questioning the legality of the order — and states could challenge it. The administration has requested Supreme Court review before decisions by an appeals court. This filing, known as a petition for certiorari before judgment, is rare because the Supreme Court prefers that cases be heard in the normal order. However, the birthright case is exceptional and the Supreme Court should grant the request.
A side-by-side photo of protesters demonstrating against the Trump administration’s immigration policies, and a photo of US President Donald Trump signing executive orders at the White House. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a U.S. birthright case on Thursday, May 14. Photos via Getty Images (Getty Images)
In addition to the legal reasons why President Trump’s order should survive any challenge, there are important policy issues at stake. Many illegal immigrants want to have children in the United States so that those children can enjoy the benefits of American citizenship. These illegal aliens will, in many cases, risk their lives, taking the chance of drowning in the Rio Grande or dying in the sweltering desert. Many illegal immigrants pay smugglers to help them cross the border. Many of these smugglers are violent and engaged in armed conflicts with Border Patrol agents, endangering the lives of the agents, illegal immigrant mothers, and the unborn children of pregnant illegals. In short, current birthright citizenship policies encourage illegal immigration and result in many dangerous border crossings. These irrational policies must change, and President Trump deserves much credit for his efforts to do so.
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Leftists have claimed in the media and in lawsuits that President Trump’s order is blatantly illegal. However, the Supreme Court has never addressed the specific question of whether children of illegal immigrants are entitled to U.S. citizenship. In United States v Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Court addressed the question of whether children born in the United States to permanent legal residents are citizens. The Court held that such children are so because their status as permanent and legal residents demonstrates their allegiance to (“subject to the jurisdiction of”) the United States. However, President Trump’s executive order has nothing to do with permanent legal residents. The order concerns illegal immigrants and those who have a temporary protected status here, for example. As such, Wong Kim Ark is irrelevant, and President Trump, contrary to what the left claims, is not defying Supreme Court precedent. Left-wing judges, on the other hand, are violating We The People’s most crucial sovereign power to control our borders and population.
Our nation has a massive illegal immigration crisis. More than ten million illegal immigrants – and perhaps more than twenty million – flooded into the United States thanks to President Biden’s hopeless border policies. Biden, Border Czar Kamala Harris, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas have spent four shameful years grossly mismanaging our border, creating a flood of illegal immigrants in cities across the country. Some of these illegal aliens have targeted Americans and committed murders, rapes, armed robberies, and home invasions.
Other illegal immigrants have joined or were members of international terrorist organizations such as Tren de Aragua. Still other illegals have made a living selling drugs, including fentanyl-laced narcotics that have claimed many American lives. It is commendable that President Trump is trying to reverse the Biden border disaster, but inferior judges have blocked his reasonable attempt to do so. So the time has come for the Supreme Court to step in and uphold President Trump’s order that restores some semblance of sanity to our immigration system. The most crucial sovereign power of the people to control our border and population is the red line that the Supreme Court cannot allow the federal judiciary to cross.
