As a grateful legal immigrant, I believe this Supreme Court decision is wrong. And here’s why.
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court has effectively declared that anyone — including illegal aliens — who gives birth on U.S. soil is entitled to automatic American citizenship for their child.
This is an astonishing judicial rewrite of the Constitution.
The first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens…”
There are two clear requirements, not one. But the Court, particularly Chief Justice Roberts, leaned heavily on jus soli — the idea that being born on the soil is enough. They essentially collapsed the second requirement into the first.
This creates a clear tension: If mere birth on U.S. soil automatically satisfies jurisdiction, then why did the framers specifically exclude children of diplomats and Native Americans? If it was pure jus soli, Native Americans born on this land would have automatically been citizens — but they weren’t.
The framers clearly understood that physical birth alone was not enough. The Supreme Court’s decision ignores this critical distinction and the original intent of the amendment.
Just like you cannot rob a bank and claim the money is now yours by possession, you should not be able to break into a country and then claim your child automatically becomes a citizen of that nation.
This decision cheapens the value of American citizenship and insults every legal immigrant who respected the process.
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Grateful Immigrant 