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After President Donald Trump’s The controversial executive order of the day and that tries to end the citizenship of birth rights For the children of illegal immigrants, several Senate Republicans have introduced a bill that would reform US law to achieve exactly that.
Entitled “Birth Law Citizenship Law of 2025”, The bill would end the practice of automatically conferring citizenship status to persons born in the United States of parents who are illegal foreigners or who are legally temporarily in the country. The bill was presented in the Senate on January 31 by Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, Katie Britt of Alabama and Ted Cruz de Texas.
The sponsors of the bill said in a statement that the measure would address what they called “one of the greatest magnets for illegal immigration”, who believe it raises a weakness for national security.
Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C., left, joined Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, during a press conference at the Capitol in Washington, on Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
The Immigration Studies Center (CIS) estimates that there are 33,000 births for tourist women in the United States. CIS also estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of births more to illegal foreigners or foreigners present in temporal visas.
A 2022 Senate report National Security Committee and Government Affairs revealed the existence of several “Birth Tourism” Companies in the United States, including a call “Miami Mama” that attended rich rich customers seeking legal status in the United States.
“The United States has changed its policy on birth law policy because it is abusing many ways,” Graham said in Friday’s statement.
He pointed out the practice of birth tourism, who said he was allowing “the rich people of China and other nations to come to the United States simply to have a son who is an American citizen.”
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A man plays with a child while waiting with other migrants from Venezuela near a bus station after being released from the custody of the United States border patrol in El Paso, Texas, USA. UU., September 13, 2022, 2022 . (Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez)
“When you look at the magnets that attract people to the United States, the citizenship of birth law is one of the greatest,” said Graham. “I also appreciate the executive order of President Trump to address the citizenship of birth law. It is time for the United States to align with the rest of the world and restrict this practice once and for all.”
Currently, standard practice in the United States is to grant automatic citizenship to all children born on American soil. This has been the practice only since the 1960s and is based on what some believe that it is a defective interpretation of the 14th amendment, which says that “all people born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to jurisdiction, They are citizens of the United States and the state in which they reside. “
The Birth Law Citizenship Law of 2025 would clarify that in order to comply with the “subject to the jurisdiction of the same”, a person born in the US Permanent or legal foreign legal that serves in the American military in active duty.
The law clarifies that it would not affect the citizenship of any person born before the approval of the law and would only restrict the citizenship of those born in the United States later.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks with the head of the United States Border Patrol, Rodney Scott (R), while participating in a ceremony that commemorates the 200a Mile of Border Wall on the international border with Mexico in San Luis, Arizona, June 23, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
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This occurs after Trump signed an executive order entitled “protecting the meaning and value of US citizenship” on their first day in office. The order, which since then has been temporarily blocked by a judicial ruling, ordered government agencies to refrain from issuing any document that recognizes the citizenship of any child born in the United States to illegal and temporary migrants.
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal member of the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital that he believes that “if this problem reaches the Supreme Court, and it is very likely that, if the Court applies the real text of the amendment and Look at their legislative history, what the sponsors of the bill said at that time, and follow their own precedents in the three cases that analyzed this issue, then they will govern in favor of Trump.
“The most important point here is that this bill is not trying to amend the 14th,” he said. “Just explain what the terms of the 14th amendment mean.”
“I think it is important that Congress emphasize what he said when he first sponsored and approved the amendment 14: that the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States would not apply to the son of a foreigner who is illegally in The United States. “The current statute, 8 USC 1401, simply repeats the language of the 14th amendment. It has been totally misunderstood in recent decades by those who erroneously say the amendment and the federal law only require birth in the United States”
It is. Katie Britt, R-Industry. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Echoing the language used in Trump’s order, Britt said that “the promise of US citizenship should not encourage illegal migration, but that is exactly what has happened for too long.”
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“It’s time to fix this,” Britt said. “The Citizenship Law of Senator Lindsey Graham and My Birthright would encode the common sense position of President Trump and end the abuse of the citizenship of birth law that I do not think is consistent with the original meaning of the citizenship clause of The 14th amendment.
This occurs after the president of the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Representatives, Brian Babin, a Texas Republican, presented a bill on January 21 to clarify in a similar way that amendment 14 does not include children of those who are in the country illegally or temporarily.
