The Birthright Citizenship Dilemma

Another d- questionable situation that I'm just not sure about, I wanted to discuss today with you is this whole idea of becoming a citizen in the US.

The United States Supreme Court just, uh, uh, just recently, about last week, came down with a ruling, a surprising ruling in my opinion, that said that birthright citizenship is constitutional, that under our- the 14th Amendment and under, uh, our Constitution, that Congress nor the president can, uh, take away the right for someone who's born in America, uh, to, uh, not become a citizen.

You're a citizen if you're born on, on f- uh, US soil.

And that's been very controversial, because, uh, the extreme example is that the mother who's nine months pregnant and sneaks across the border just to let her baby be, uh, an American citizen.

And so, uh, uh, again, I, I...

Ronna, I don't know if you followed that closely, but I, I was surprised.

I thought a couple of Trump appointees, A- Amy Coney Barrett, and I think John Roberts, who was not appointed by, uh, Trump, uh, voted, uh, to support birthright citizenship.

And, uh, so, uh, the...

And I'm a lawyer and I try to pay close attention to it, but you don't know what happens with the...

Say the mama comes over and has that baby.

All right, her child is a citizen, but the mother is not a U- She does not get any kind of special birthright just because she had the baby on US soil.

She's subject to be deported, quite frankly.

Right.

Uh, there's, uh, all kinds of ways she can apply.

She can apply for temporary asylum, saying that her life is under a threat in her home company.

She can apply for a work, uh, visa in the United States.

There's a number of programs she'd apply for.

The problem now from what I'm h- I hear, a- and I've got a son in the construction business, and a nephew, and, and, uh, uh, they all tell me that, uh, the person trying to get a work permit, uh, can't get it right away.

The federal system is so bogged down that it takes years to get any, any legitimate way to carry on a work in the United States, and that person is here illegally and is subject, as we've seen, some pretty severe, uh, restrictions by this ICE group.

The federal government cutting down on illegal immigrants can make it very, very difficult.

So it's a whole mental situation that the Supreme Court has, uh, uh, has opened up a can of worms for.

I don't mean to say what they did was wrong.

I'm kind of torn, but what they did was put the parents in one category and the child in another category, and that's gonna present a lot of problems in the future.