This is lengthy, but weighty, and, I believe, well worth the time to read. I’ll begin with a reminder that the Bible predicts the end of time will be pervaded by lawlessness. No honest American can deny that the law has become practically meaningless in modern-day America. Examples are plentiful; such as, illegal immigration, flash-mob-style teen takeovers, mass smash and grab looting, protester-seized autonomous zones, and no-cash bail, which has turned our judicial system into a revolving door for repeat offenders, even for the most hardened and violent among them.
On top of this growing anarchy in America, there is another problem, which Thomas Jefferson predicted would one day imperil our representative republic. According to Jefferson, once “judges” are viewed "as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions,” as they definitely are today, not only will our judiciary have become "a despotic branch of government,” but all judges will have become “despots," who can turn our Constitution into "a mere thing of wax, which they can twist and shape into any form they please." Jefferson went on to warn that this "dangerous doctrine" of judicial despotism must be soundly renounced, lest the judiciary "slyly and without alarm" accomplish "what open force would not dare attempt”—the undermining of our Constitution and the overthrow of our government.
I believe the haunting specter of Thomas Jefferson hovered over our high court this past Wednesday, when oral arguments occurred on birthright citizenship. As I listened, I could not help but hear Jefferson’s ominous prognostication about judicial despotism ringing in my ears. To explain why I found the court’s oral arguments so ominous, I’ll start with a short history lesson.
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed to abolish slavery. The 14th Amendment, which was passed on the heels of the 13th Amendment, was passed to guarantee citizenship and "equal protection under [our] laws" to the children of all freed slaves born in America. Since its passage in 1866 and ratification in 1868, the 14th Amendment has also been understood to grant citizenship to all children born in this country to legal immigrants. However, beginning around 1987, with the Vietnamese boat people, illegal immigrants started gaming the 14th Amendment with what came to be known as "anchor babies." These newborns, born to illegal immigrants in our country, were claimed by their undocumented alien parents to be United States citizens, because of the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship. Ever since then, illegal immigrants have been using newborns, born to them on American soil, to anchor themselves in our country, under the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship to their American born children.
Needless to say, those who passed and ratified the 14th Amendment must be turning over in their graves. They never imagined it being used to guarantee citizenship to babies born in our country to illegal immigrants who have violated our laws and unlawfully invaded our land by the millions. In fact, at the time the 14th Amendment was ratified, there was no immigration problem in our country nor any immigration laws to speak of, apart from the Naturalization Act of 1790, which limited citizenship to "free white persons” of good character, the Alien Sedition Acts, of 1798, which authorized the deportations of aliens deemed “dangerous, and the Steerage Act of 1819, which required ship captains to register passenger lists.
In spite of all of the above, present-day judicial despots have turned the 14th Amendment into something its ratifiers could have never imagined, a mere thing of wax twisted into a contorted constitutional right of citizenship to all babies born in our country to illegal immigrants. Undoubtedly, to believe such an absurdity is downright insanity. However, if you listened to the oral arguments at the Supreme Court Wednesday, as I did, you came away convinced that our Supreme Court Justices, at least the majority of them, are jugheads, for treating this absurdity as though it were some kind of complicated constitutionality.
Before diving into the dumb truck load of legalese dumped out on common sense by our highest court this past Wednesday, permit me to take a shot at our legislative branch of government, which is by far the most barren branch of our trio of scraggly branches. At anytime over the last several decades, our Congress could have clarified the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. By doing so it could have easily prevented our perilous present-day predicament. However, not caring in the least to preserve the value of American citizenship, not to mention American sovereignty, security, and society, Congress has twiddle its thumbs for years while our whole country has been overrun by foreign illegal immigrants, who demand automatic citizenship to all of their newborns birthed within our borders.
Having given the Bronx cheer to Congress, I’ll now give the bum’s rush to our Supreme Court, for having contorted a cut and dried case, as well as simple common sense, into a convoluted constitutional complex labyrinth this past Wednesday. What should have been easy, became elusive, when buried beneath an avalanche of unintelligible legalese.
The 14th Amendment clearly states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the Untied States and the State wherein they reside.” Notice, the key phrase here: “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” One of the cosponsors of the 14th Amendment, Senator Lyman Trumbull, defined the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States in clear terms. According to Trumbull, it means “not owing allegiance to anybody else.” The other cosponsor, Senator Jacob Howard, empathically stated that the 14th Amendment does not “include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, [or] who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.” Well, there you have it; case closed!
There is no way that illegal immigrants, who have unlawfully entered our country, are subject to our jurisdiction. Indeed, their very presence here is in defiance of that fact. Furthermore, there is no way Chinese immigrants, who are required by China’s National Intelligence Law, to swear allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party, as well as to serve as communist spies wherever they reside, can have undivided allegiance to America. Neither is it possible for Muslim immigrants, who have come here from Islamic states, to have undivided allegiance to America, since they are obligated by both the rules of their religious faith and the laws of their former homelands to serve as jihadists, especially against our own country, which their mullahs teach is the “Great Satan” that must be destroyed before their Mahdi (Messiah) can come and establish his worldwide caliphate.
Obviously, any American with a thimble full of common sense can see from the above the preposterousness, not to mention the tremendous peril to our representative republic, of granting automatic citizenship to all babies born in our country to illegal immigrants. Yet, this simple five-finger exercise and fundamental fact somehow proved to be beyond the grasp of the great legal minds perched on the high bench of our high court. For instance, Chief Justice John Roberts called such arguments “very quirky” and Justice Amy Coney Barrette exasperatingly sighed that it was “hard” for her to understand.
Besides being bowled over by such brainlessness, I was also flabbergasted on Wednesday to hear both Cecillia Wang, the ACLU lawyer, and the court’s liberal justices, sounding like textualists or originalists; that is, staunch advocates of the belief that the original meaning of the constitutional text must be stringently stuck to and never departed from in the slightest. Of course, we all know that liberal activist judges have argued for years the exact opposite, insisting that our Constitution is “a living document” that may be freely and readily reinterpreted to address and authorize such modern-day madness as abortion on demand and same-sex marriage.
Wednesday, however, these former proponents of a Play Doh Constitution, became spokesmen for a chiseled in stone Constitution. In spite of the fact that our current crisis over birthright citizenship could have never been imagined in 1868, not even in the wildest imaginations of the ratifiers of the 14th Amendment, Ms.Wang and the court’s liberal justices argued that the court has to completely ignore this present-day peril to our representative republic and rule as though it is trapped in a 1868 time warp. In fact, Ms. Wang went so far as to argue that no conditions can ever be added to the 14th Amendment’s citizenship rule, an argument so autocratic and arbitrary that Justice Brett Kavanaugh concluded, with Ms. Wang’s confirmation, that her point, as well as the ACLU’s position, is that our current understanding of birthright citizenship is “closed” and “frozen forever.”
By now, you might be asking yourself why any of this should matter to you or to your children. Well, I’m glad you asked. Have you ever heard of a birth tourism business? Although you, like the vast majority of Americans, may have never heard of such a thing, there are more than 500 of them in China alone. These businesses are paid handsomely to bring foreigners to our country to give birth to babies who are automatically granted birthright citizenship. Currently, there are, thanks to China’s birth tourism industry, 1.5 million new Chinese citizens in our country! In his book, The Silent Coup, author Peter Schweizer documents how the celebrated first birth in America on January 1, 2025 was a baby born to Chinese citizens.
Along with birth tourism, another way our 14th Amendment is being gamed by foreigners in our land today is an ever-growing surrogacy scandal. Take for example the story of Gurjun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, a Chinese couple under investigation in California for child abuse. These two Chinese nationalists, who own $100 million in United States real estate holdings, are spawning, via surrogate, their own little commie army in America, which is currently comprised of 26 children and counting. Not to be outdone by Xuan and Zhang, another Chinese billionaire, Xu Bo, who lives in China, claims to have more than 100 surrogate children in America, many of whom he has never met.
According to the Pew Research Center, there were 320,000 babies born to undocumented aliens in America in 2023? This staggering figure represented 9% of the annual births in our country two years ago. Truly, it’s high time all Americans asked themselves the following frightening question: “How much longer will it be before we wake up in a foreign country; that is, in an America that has been totally overrun and taken over by foreigners?”
Like the fall of the Roman Empire, which Cicero attributed to the “enemy [being] within the gates,” America, modern-day Rome, is also falling and our children’s future being forfeited by “the enemy within our gates.” Yet, our do-nothing Congress continues to twiddle its thumbs, our Supreme Court lulls itself to sleep with a lullaby of lyrical legalese, and our populace appears oblivious to our ongoing occupation by invading, inimical, and illegal immigrants.