Republican attorneys general from 18 states are pushing back against lawsuits filed by Democrat AGs and legal groups nationwide challenging the Trump administration’s executive order on birthright citizenship. They are filing an amicus brief.
“If someone comes on a tourist visa to have an anchor baby, they are not under that original meaning of the United States Constitution,” Iowa AG Brenna Bird told Fox News Digital in an interview Monday. Bird is the lead AG leading an amicus brief filing in support of the executive order on Monday.
“Oftentimes, when this has happened. It’s the taxpayers that are paying for the health care through Medicaid or through hospitals, paying for care for someone to have a child, or the state child health insurance system as well,” Bird said. “Each state has a system that helps kids without insurance, and so the taxpayers are on the hook here for all the costs.”
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Eighteen Democrat-led states launched their own lawsuit, claiming the order is unconstitutional and “unprecedented.”
“The President has no authority to rewrite or nullify a constitutional amendment or duly enacted statute. Nor is he empowered by any other source of law to limit who receives United States citizenship at birth,” the lawsuit reads.
Attorneys general from California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, and others signed on to the suit, along with the city and county of San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration the same day he signed the order “on behalf of organizations with members whose babies born on U.S. soil will be denied citizenship under the order.”
Not being a lawyer, I can’t say if President Trump has a case, but it’s good to see the question asked and resolved.
The 14th Amendment states that everyone born here is a US citizen. However, that Amendment was meant for Black people who had been enslaved. They were not in the US illegally! They were NOT illegal aliens.
Illegal aliens were not promised their children would be citizens, as constitutional lawyer Ann Coulter wrote on X.
The Supreme Court has never held that the kids born to illegals are citizens. Congress should pass a law to make it absolutely clear that they are not. https://t.co/SpKYvHtRoB
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 8, 2024
It ALL needs to be written into law or built with cement and razor wire. Executive orders are written in sand. https://t.co/NLESRiceTD
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 22, 2025
As Ann Coulter wrote:
The late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan invented the anchor-baby policy out of whole cloth and snuck it into a footnote of an opinion written in 1982. Yes, this ancient bedrock principle, this essence of “Who We Are,” dates all the way back to the Reagan administration.
The Brennan footnote was not part of the decision. It does not have the force of law. Yet, today, we act as if Brennan’s absurd dicta is the law of the land for no reason other than a) sheer ignorance and b) a fear of being called “racist.”
No U.S. Congress or Supreme Court ever debated and then approved the idea that children born to mothers illegally present in the country should automatically become citizens. Consequently, any president or Congress could simply state that children born to illegal aliens are not citizens. If only we had a president or Congress that would do so.
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