A federal appeals court has ruled against President Donald Trump's order ending birthright citizenship in a major setback for the Trump administration.
The three-judge panel issued an injunction that will block Trump's executive order, issued in January, from going into effect. Birthright citizenship has long been abused by illegal immigrants to gain a path to citizenship, and this appeals court seems content to allow such abuse to continue.
In a 100 page ruling, the panel wrote, "The ‘lessons of history’ thus give us every reason to be wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one’s parents rather than, in all but the rarest of circumstances, the simple fact of being born in the United States."
The notion of birthright citizenship is utterly insane and entirely derived from a twisted interpretation of the original Constitutional wording that the left is eager to uphold.
Without birthright citizenship, there would be no way for illegal immigrants to gain a path to citizenship by birthing children in the United States. And without a steady supply of dependent voters, the left wouldn't have power.
This decision to uphold birthright citizenship is setting the stage for a massive battle at the Supreme Court, where the hope is that the conservative justices will rule to finally put an end to birthright citizenship and its decades of abuse.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is leading the charge against Trump's order, reacted to the decision by saying, "Today’s decision upholds a nationwide injunction in our lawsuit challenging the President’s attempt to end, with the stroke of a pen, the constitutional right to birthright citizenship."
He further added, "We will continue to oppose this executive order until the President’s attempt to unmake the Constitution is blocked completely," in acknowledgement of the future battle at the Supreme Court.
The left truly believes that any illegal immigrant who illegally crosses the border or even overstays a visa and gives birth in the United States confers citizenship to that child. It's long past time for the Supreme Court to deal a fatal blow to this absurd legal thinking.
Prior to this ruling, the Department of Justice had already asked the Supreme Court to review Trump's order, and it is expected that this will be one of many major cases that the court will oversee in its next term.
Immigration fraud comes in many different shapes and sizes, but the "anchor baby" strategy is one of the more common forms of fraud and abuse that foreigners exploit to gain citizenship.
The Trump administration has recognized the need to end birthright citizenship in order to put an end to these many types of immigration fraud and get a handle on America's out-of-control immigration crisis.
Hopefully, the Supreme Court will review this matter sooner rather than later. This litigation has dragged on for far too long, as this executive order was originally issued nearly a year ago.
