The Supreme Court just ruled that anyone from anywhere can birth an “American” on U.S. soil — and 750,000 to 1.5 million Chinese nationals are already exploiting the loophole.
The June 30 ruling upheld automatic birthright citizenship, rejecting President Trump’s executive order that would have blocked an estimated 260,000 births to illegal immigrants and temporary visa holders in 2023 alone.
Justice Samuel Alito warned in his dissent that the Court resurrected a “system of soil and servitude” — the medieval feudal rule the Founders explicitly rejected in the Declaration of Independence.
“This ruling continues to allow a person whose only connection to this country is a brief stay on American soil at birth to travel the world on a U.S. passport, enter our country freely, vote in our elections, run for political office, and retain citizenship even if they harbor deep hatred for America or actively plot to harm it.”
At the center of the fight: the 14th Amendment’s requirement that citizens be “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
Justice Clarence Thomas argued in his dissent that this phrase demands permanent legal domicile — not a fleeting tourist visit or illegal border crossing.
Sen. Lyman Trumbull, a principal architect of the amendment, explained the jurisdictional test meant “not owing allegiance to anybody else” and being “subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States.”
The amendment’s author, Sen. Jacob Howard, stated during Senate debates that automatic birthright citizenship would not “include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens.”
The Court majority’s response? Argue over commas — insisting “foreigners” and “aliens” merely describe diplomat families.
Justice Alito dismantled the left’s favorite precedent. The 1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark case applied only to children whose parents had established “permanent domicil and residence” in the U.S. — not illegal aliens or birth tourists.
Wong’s parents were Chinese immigrants barred from naturalization but lawfully domiciled under common law. They had done, Alito wrote, “everything within their power to express their desire and intent to become Americans.”
That’s the opposite of today’s birth tourism industry.
Wealthy Chinese nationals exploit visa loopholes in U.S. territories like Saipan, turning them into tropical maternity wards. A sophisticated industry charging more than $45,000 coaches birth tourists on how to deceive customs officials.
Peter Schweizer documented the threat in his book The Invisible Coup, calling it “civilizational warfare.”
The result: an estimated 750,000 to 1.5 million “American citizens” currently being raised and indoctrinated in mainland China — taught to hate America and Western civilization.
Schweizer calls them the “Manchurian Generation.”
When these children turn 18, they can vote in U.S. elections. At 21, they unlock chain migration — sponsoring their foreign parents for legal permanent residency.
Democratic Socialist victories in recent municipal elections, driven by rapidly shifting urban demographics, show where this leads.
In 2023 alone, mothers who were unauthorized immigrants or held only temporary legal status accounted for 320,000 births in the United States — 9 percent of all U.S. births.
If Trump’s executive order had been upheld, roughly 260,000 of those children would not have qualified for automatic citizenship.
The American Revolution was premised on governments deriving just powers from the consent of the governed. Citizenship must be a two-way relationship.
As Alito pointed out, while Congress holds the power to confer citizenship by statute, the Constitution itself does not mandate the degradation of American citizenship for everyone who crosses our borders.
American citizenship is a priceless inheritance — not a cheap commodity to be harvested by hostile foreign powers.
No sovereign nation can survive if it abandons the right to decide who belongs to its national family.
The charges remain allegations. The case has not been proven in court.
