The trend of anchor babies has been a growing one in recent decades and really exploded as the borders were opened under the Obama administration. The idea is pretty simple. By abusing the birthright citizenship laws we have in the country, pregnant women often show up before having their child, have them here to get their child citizenship, then go back home. Eighteen years later, they can use that now "citizen" child to sponsor them for their own citizenship.

The childbirth most likely, by the way, is funded by taxpayers. People from all countries, especially China, have abused this loophole now for a while. Now, we are starting to see the fallout from it. New data from Pew Research shows that in 2023, close to 10-percent of all U.S. births were to illegal immigrant parents or parents here "temporarily." Which in America, "temporary" basically means nothing. Just look at the "temporary" protected status of Haitians for 16 years and counting.

The fact of the matter is this is a ludicrous thing that needs addressing. It is insanity someone can have a child here, raise them in India, then send them here to and expect them to be treated as true Americans. They are not, no matter how much Democrats stomp their feet and declare it so.

Jason Richwine of the Center for Immigration Studies says this is all thanks to those years of open border policies with zero guardrails.

"Many were allowed in despite not even having visas...that is why the number has spiked so much, so many people that do not have authorization to be here," he says.

President Trump has tried correcting us off this disaster course. One of his first moves in returning to the White House was to sign an executive order eliminating birthright citizenship. Because really, if just anyone can be a citizen for being born here, what is the point of citizenship?

That order is in the Supreme Court's hands, almost certainly resting entirely with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is not Trump's biggest fan. But even then, while getting rid of this follow the logic line, it is different when it comes to legality.

"This does not as all conform to what the Immigration and Nationality Act, passed by Congress, is trying to do," says Richwine. "Unfortunately, the legality of it, the constitutionality of it...is almost a separate question from the wisdom of it."

The Supreme Court holds the fate of this in its hands. America is being overrun by people who do not truly want to be here, just want to benefit from citizenship of being here.

As for fixing it, Richwine adds that if this order is struck down by SCOTUS, the next step would be for Congress to pass meaningful legislation.

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