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https://tomklingenstein.com/trump-is-right-about-birthright-citizenship/

Shortly after President Trump issued his executive order addressing birthright citizenship, the U.S. Senator from Hawaii, Mazie Hirono, posted this on her X/twitter account: “The Fourteenth Amendment is clear as day—’All persons born or naturalized in the United States…are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.’” Fascinating that she elided over the key phrase, “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” 

Unfortunately, my long-time friend, Professor John Yoo, recently published an article at The Civitas Institute that begins with a summary that repeats the same error. “The Fourteenth Amendment directly overruled Dred Scott by declaring that all persons born in the US were citizens.” (Emphasis added). Now I know that Professor Yoo himself does not believe that, as during our many debates on the subject of birthright citizenship, he has always acknowledged that the “subject to the jurisdiction” clause excludes the children of diplomats and occupying armies. But there it is, boldly stated in this article, without even the ellipses that Senator Hirono used in her X post.

My dispute with Professor Yoo centers on whether the “subject to the jurisdiction” clause omitted from his and Senator Hirono’s formulations exempts from the grant of automatic citizenship only the children of diplomats and occupying armies, as the old English common law of jus soli did, or whether it also exempts the children of temporary visitors (“sojourners” was the word in use at the time), such as those present in the U.S. as tourists or on temporary work or student visas, and the children of those who have entered this country illegally.     

Truth be told, because immigration (and particularly illegal immigration) was not an issue in 1868 when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, there is no direct debate about whether children of temporary sojourners or illegal immigrants would be citizens. But there is extensive debate over the analogous question of whether the children of Native Americans would be citizens. Those debates make clear that they would not be, because they owed, through their parents, allegiance to their semi-sovereign tribes and not to the United States. 

Children born to parents who, as merely temporary visitors (legal or illegal) to this country continue to owe allegiance to a foreign power — their home country — are by analogy even less entitled to automatic citizenship. Quite simply, they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States in the complete sense intended by the Fourteenth Amendment.

https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/02/23/oops-i-think-the-nyt-just-said-the-quiet-part-about-deportation-out-loud-n4937259

Tell me you’re out of touch without telling me you’re out of touch. 

I wasn’t planning on writing anything today as I’m knee-deep in a house cleaning project, but I took a little break to peruse the news and saw an article in the New York Times that had me wondering if I’d accidentally stumbled upon a satire site like the Babylon Bee. It was about how deporting illegal migrants would have a negative impact on the wealthy people who have homes in the Hamptons. You know, the real victims in all of this.  

The article is entitled “They Help Make the Hamptons the Hamptons, and Now They’re Living in Fear.” The subtitle reads “Latino immigrants care for some of America’s most lavish beachside mansions. Their disappearance would affect the wealthy, too.” But wait, it gets better. The article begins: 

The party dresses must be double-pressed, the hedges shaved into sharp rectangles. The hand soap and lotion dispensers must be formed into neat lines along bathroom sinks. Caterers need to slip out of view as soon as the oysters and cocktails are served.

Wealthy residents of the Hamptons demand perfection. Now, many of the people who make it so — Latino immigrants, some of them undocumented — are panicking about President Trump’s deportation orders.

It goes on with great quotes like this one: “Some of the wealthy are quietly beginning to make calculations about what it would mean if their undocumented workers were deported. Who would mow the lawn?”

(Note: their undocumented workers)

Or this one from Marit Molan, director of Hamptons Community Outreach: “Everyone relies on housekeepers and carpenters and tree cutters and grass cutters. People come to the Hamptons to enjoy their houses, and who is going to take care of their houses?”

Who would mow the lawn? Or shave the hedges into sharp rectangles or fill the hand soap dispensers? Are you kidding me? I couldn’t believe what I was reading. We’re talking about human beings, and the New York Times is worried about how elitist Hamptons homeowners will take care of their plantations properties.

https://www.thefp.com/p/trumps-opening-move-against-migrant?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Mellissa Harper, who was installed a few weeks ago as the temporary head of the federal government’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), is wasting no time making important and necessary changes to the agency’s infamous Unaccompanied Alien Children program. On Friday, the agency released new guidance that will make it more difficult for members of transnational criminal organizations and pimps to “sponsor” teenage migrants and then traffic them for sex or labor. The problem grew significantly under the Biden administration, with three times more victims applying for government benefits under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act during the Biden administration.

The most significant change is that all potential sponsors must be fingerprinted, and the fingerprints must be sent to the FBI to check for criminal records. No child will be released to a sponsor until their fingerprints are recorded in the unaccompanied child’s file. In addition, all identification documents must be legible and unexpired.

Critics of the Trump administration’s immigration policy complain that cumbersome fingerprinting and identification rules could delay the vetting of sponsors, leading to a backlog and overcrowding in shelters that house unaccompanied children. They also fear that under Harper, who has been an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement since 2007, ORR will share information about the sponsors, most of whom are illegal immigrants themselves, with ICE, making it easier to arrest and deport them. But Harper was unapologetic in an email to the ORR staff. “The pervasive fraud in the sponsor process is undeniable,’ she wrote.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/02/17/trump-gets-broad-backing-on-illegal-immigration-crackdown-ii-tipp-poll/

President Donald Trump’s actions since reclaiming the Oval Office to secure America’s borders, remove criminals and keep other illegal immigrants out are proving to be highly popular among American voters, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows. Even a significant share of Democrats support Trump’s policies.

If you’re looking for a reason why Trump won so handily against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, illegal immigration looms large. The online national I&I/TIPP Poll, taken from Jan. 29-31, asked 1,478 adults around the country four questions about Trump’s immigration policies and the actions he has taken so far. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.6 percentage points.

The first question: “Do you support or oppose Trump’s promise of large-scale deportations of illegal migrants?” By a roughly 3-to-2 majority, voters back this idea. The actual numbers: 57% say they support it either “strongly” (35%) or “somewhat” (22%), while just 35% oppose it “strongly” (22%) or “somewhat” (13%). Another 8% aren’t sure.

How does that split with regard to political affiliation? Republicans (85% support, 11% oppose) and independents (54% support, 37% oppose) both gave strong backing.

What about the Democrats? A solid majority oppose it, at 59%, but 31% (nearly one in three) support it. And that support likely comes from two pillars of the Democratic Party: black voters (43% support, 45% oppose) and Hispanic voters (46% support, 44% oppose).

Wealthy Hampton residents hold meeting over nannies being deported©News 12

The wealthy residents of East Hampton went into panic mode over the possibility their hired help could face expulsion from the US as part of Donald Trump’s mass deportation program. The exclusive Long Island village – with an average home value of $2 million and residents that include Sylvester Stallone’s daughters – held an emergency meeting amid fears that ICE would round up the employees of locals.

https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2025/02/06/militant-group-teaching-self-defense-against-ice-raids-n4936751

Under the Obama administration, we were repeatedly told about the “fundamental transformation” of America, and we have seen what that looks like scrawled in broad strokes across the national canvas. Then came “The Great Replacement Theory,” which the MSM and progressives laughed and hooted at and labeled as a conspiracy. Of course, anyone with the capacity to reason understood that the theory in question was subtle, multi-pronged, and a component of Obama’s vision for fundamental transformation. 

A bit of that has been played out recently in the mass protests in which people waving Mexican flags and those of other nations have blockaded freeways and storefronts while engaging in acts of violence, destruction, and intimidation. The message they are sending, whether intended or not, is clear: they have no intention of living the American Dream, even if they did enter the country clandestinely. Whether they know it or not or even if they don’t care, they look for all the world like an occupying force.

Now, they are putting the flags away as the movement takes its next natural step. The Washington Free Beacon reports that a left-wing militant group, Unión del Barrio (UdB), has been offering what it calls “self-defense” training to help illegals respond to ICE raids. Using the Black Panthers as a model, UdB is trying to recruit patrols to identify ICE vehicles and personnel and drive the agents out of Latino neighborhoods. 

The Free Beacon had a quote from the group’s website (which incidentally featured a photo of Cuban soldiers armed with AK-47s):

The Community Patrols are a means of building community-based power that will challenge police and migra (sic) attacks. These agencies are trained to profile, harass, detain, arrest, and brutalize our people. We are determined to build … barrio [neighborhood]-centered self-defense and prevent the detention and family separation that has taken place over the last several decades.

The objective is to organize our people in every barrio, block by block, to defend our communities from colonial violence and threats to our human and democratic rights. We intend to expose the anti-Raza [race] nature of the colonizer state that has now openly declared itself a tool to terrorize, repress, and exploit the lives and labor power of the Mexicano-Raza working class.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/glazov-gang-organ-harvesting-and-trafficking-on-our-border/

This new Glazov Gang episode features Christie Hutcherson, the founder of Women Fighting for America and a board member of Heal-Corp. Visit her at WFFA.win.

Christie discusses Organ Harvesting and Trafficking on Our Border, reflecting on: Nightmarish terror brought to you by the Biden regime.

Don’t miss it!

https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/30/mexico-friend-enemy-neutral-or-something-else/

Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences?

Mexico also recently balked at allowing a U.S. transport plane to land, returning its own nationals apprehended as illegal aliens.

Was its attitude that Alejandro Mayorkas was still Homeland Security Secretary and thus working with Mexico to ensure that millions of illegal aliens could stay in the U.S. indefinitely?

After four years of Biden’s appeasement, Mexico seems to assume that it has a sovereign right to encourage the flight of millions of its own impoverished citizens illegally into the U.S. and further assumes that it can fast-track millions of Latin Americans through its territory and across our border.

Mexico either cannot or will not address the billions of dollars of raw fentanyl products shipped in—mostly from China—and then processed for export to the U.S. by its cartels across a nonexistent border.

Mexico seems to have little concern that some 75,000 Americans on average die from mostly Mexican-imported fentanyl each year—more deaths in just the last decade than all the Americans killed in action during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined. Who then is our friend, and who is our enemy?

This appalling death toll is in part due to the deliberate efforts of the cartels to mask fentanyl as less deadly narcotics or camouflage the poison by lacing it into counterfeit prescription drugs.

Mexico encourages its expatriate illegal aliens to send back some $63 billion per year in remittances. That huge sum constitutes one of Mexico’s largest sources of foreign exchange, surpassing even its tourist and oil revenues.