# Some birthrights and wrongs about U.S. citizenship

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Podcast: [Freedom Unaffiliated](https://stenobird.com/podcast/freedom-unaffiliated-6377441)
Published: 2026-07-23T21:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thinkfreedom.org
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It was no surprise that the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s executive order denying citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents who were here illegally or were birthright tourists visiting the country on a temporary visa. The latter group is made up of foreigners who game the system by coming here for the sole purpose of birthing a child (or twins) to get the kid(s) U.S. citizenship, then returning home with their anchor baby for future use. While I agree with Trump’s intent, doing this with an executive order clearly overstepped his bounds and was easily nixed by the Supremes. An act of Congress is required which Democrats would certainly have blocked. Nonetheless, by taking the case, it gave SCOTUS, with a 6-3 majority of conservative justices, an opportunity to also make a judgment on the matter of birthright citizenship. This has been a debatable issue with laws and court precedents going back and forth for two centuries. There’s precedent in taking either side. Unfortunately, perhaps with misguided honorable intentions, Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett couldn’t bring themselves to take the decisive option and join their conservative colleagues to resolve the issue and voted with the three leftist, “living-Constitution” justices who favor open borders and have little allegiance to original intent. Roberts and Coney ignored other valid arguments and centered their case on a controversial interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment and a claim that the nation’s founders adopted British common law basing citizenship on the “soil ,” jus soli, the place where a child was born. Some founders agreed, some didn’t, but virtually all rejected the British form of government which led to the Revolutionary War. The majority ruling leaned on th…

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