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Following that of President Donald Trump controversial day executive order trying to end birth citizens For the children of illegal immigrants, several Senate Republicans have introduced a bill that would reform the United States Law to achieve exactly that.
Entitled The The The The The “Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025,” The bill would end the practice of automatically conferring the condition of citizenship to the people born in the United States of parents who are illegal foreigners or who are in the country legally temporarily. The bill was introduced to the Senate on January 31 by Republican sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Alabama Katie Britt 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 largest magnets for illegal immigration”, which they believe is a weakness for national security.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Rs.C., left, joined by Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, during a press conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo / J. Scott AppleWhite)
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) estimates that there are 33,000 births for tourist women in the United States annually. CIs estimate that there are hundreds of thousands more births for aliens or illegal aliens present in temporary visas.
A report of 2022 of the Senate National Security Committee and Government Affairs revealed the existence of several “Birth Tourism” United States companies, including a so -called “Miami Mama” that was attending rich Russian clients seeking a legal state in the United States
“It has been a long time since the United States has changed its policy on the initial citizenship of births because it is being abused in so many ways,” Graham said in a Friday statement.
He pointed out the practice of birth tourism, which he said to allow “rich individuals from China and other nations to come to the United States simply having a son who will be a north -American citizen.”
A man plays with a child while waiting with other Venezuela migrants near a bus station after being released from the custody of the North -American border patrol in El Paso, Texas, USA, on September 13, 2022 . (Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez)
“When we look at the magnets that attract people in America, the citizens of the birth are one of the largest,” said Graham. “I also appreciate the executive order of President Trump for approaching the citizens of the first half. It’s 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 in the United States. This has been practice only since the 1960’s 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 the jurisdiction of They are citizens of the United States and the state where they reside. “
The Citizens’ Law of the Birth of Birth of 2025 would clarify that in order to comply with the “subject to jurisdiction” clause, a person born in the United States must have at least one parent the North -American military of active service.
The law clarifies that it would not affect the citizenship of anyone born before the passage of law and would only restrict the citizenship of those born in the United States later.
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United States President Donald Trump talks to the head of North -American Border Patrol, Rodney Scott (R), as he participates in a ceremony commemorating the 200th Mile of Frontra Wall at the International Border with Mexico in San. Luis, Arizona, on June 23, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
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This occurs after Trump signed an executive order entitled “Protection of the meaning and value of North -American citizenship” on his first day in office. The order, which has been temporarily blocked by a court ruling since then, directed government agencies to refrain from issuing any document that recognizes the citizens of any child born in the United States to illegal and temporary migrants. .
Hans von Spakovsky, a leading legal member of the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital that he believes that “if this issue comes to the Supreme Court and it is very likely that if the court applies the real text of the modification and look at its Legislative history, what was said by the sponsors of the bill at that time, and follows their own precedents in the three cases that examined this issue, and then governed in favor of Trump.
“The most important point here is that this bill does not try to modify the 14th amendment,” he said. “It is simply explaining what the terms of the 14th amendment mean.”
“I think it is important for Congress to remedy what he said when sponsored and approved the 14th amendment: that the phrase” subject to the jurisdiction “of the United States would not apply to the son of an alien · Legally in the United States and it is, when he was born, a citizen of the country of the parents of the child and, therefore, is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, “he continued. “The current Statute, 8 USC 1401, simply repeats the language of the 14th amendment. Those who say that the modification and federal law have only been misunderstood in recent decades”
It is. Katie Britt, R-Industry. (Pictures of Kevin Dietsch/Getty)
Echoing the language used in Trump’s order, Britt said that “the promise of North -American citizenship should not encourage illegal migration, but this is exactly what has happened too long.”
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“It’s time to solve it,” Britt said. “Senator Lindsey Graham and my birth law citizenship law would encode the community stance of President Trump and will end the abuse of the citizens of the birth part, which I do not think is consistent with the original meaning of the clause of Citizenship of the 14th Amendment.
This occurs after the President of the House Science and Technology Committee, Brian Babin, R-Texas, introduced a bill on January 21 to clarify in a similar way that the 14th amendment does not include the children of those who are found to the country illegally or temporarily.
