If President Donald Trump succeeds in ending birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants and other non-citizens, he will bring to office a practice exploited by potentially millions of foreign nationals in recent years. will let you.

In 2023, 250,000 babies will be born to illegal immigrant parents. According to Recently updated estimates by the Center for Miveriation Studies (CIS). To put that number in perspective, that number exceeded the birth rate in most states and nearly made up for 7% of all births in the country that year.

“U.S. citizenship is the most valuable status in the entire world. You get a passport, enjoy the protection of the U.S. government, and can vote.” News Foundation. “So when you expand the population of people who are here illegally, especially couples, you get to a situation where this is an increasingly prominent problem.” (Watch the Daily Caller documentary “Cartel Building”)

“And that’s probably the best way to say this is credit to the Trump administration for actually forcing the issue so that we could get a resolution,” Arthur said.

Hours after taking office, Trump signed the presidential order It would remove birthright citizenship guarantees for individuals born illegally or on temporary visas to parents living in the United States, following a pledge he repeatedly made on the campaign trail. It took less than a day for Democrats and other liberal organizations to object to the move. The ACLU and a coalition of state attorneys general sued to block the order.

A federal judge has since put the order on hold, and legal experts agree the fight will likely end up in the hands of the Supreme Court.

Whichever way it is decided, the outcome will have a major impact on the number of individuals born each year in the country and the millions of foreigners who wish to enter with the goal of giving birth on American soil. . (Related: Top Dem admits courts shoot down most immigrants’ asylum claims)

An estimated 250,000 births to illegal immigrant parents in 2023 shows the practice is on the rise. in lawsuit In response to the executive order, the plaintiffs cited a report from the National Vital Statistics Corporation that estimated that 153,000 children across the United States were born to parents lacking legal immigrant status in 2022.

The lawsuit cited a 2014 CIS study that found more than 125,000 children born to illegal immigrant mothers in plaintiff states alone in 2014.

Birthright citizenship for illegal aliens costs U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year. According to another, in 2014 alone, approximately $2.3 billion in government funds was spent on children born to illegal immigrant parents. CIS research This concludes that nearly 87% of illegal immigrant households whose children used at least one welfare program in 2015.

Trump’s order not only strips people born to illegal immigrant parents of their birthright citizenship, but also many people born to parents who come to the country on temporary visas. The executive order aims to prevent individuals born in the United States from obtaining citizenship if they do not have at least one parent who is a lawful permanent resident or U.S. citizen. According to white house.

The lawful permanent residence provisions are intended to address birth tourism. tens of thousands A large number of babies are born each year to foreign nationals who enter the country legally, but are born on temporary visas with the sole purpose of giving birth on U.S. soil and reaping the benefits associated with having an American child. Masu.

SAN LUIS, AZ – MAY 21: A pregnant immigrant from Haiti undergoes contractions by her partner (L) and another immigrant while she crosses from Mexico, May 2022 The US-Mexico border barrier is in the background on the 21st in San Luis, Arizona. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

U.S. authorities have discovered a business scheme that revolves entirely around promoting and providing services to non-citizens wishing to spawn on American soil. For foreigners with the financial resources to do so, they can use birth tourism repeatedly.

“There was a case involving a woman who was a national of a country far away from San Francisco, California, but if she was eight months pregnant, she would fly to San Francisco,” Arthur, a former trial attorney, told DCNF. . “She gave birth at Charity Hospital, stayed there for two weeks to a month postpartum, and then went to the state department’s offices on Market Street in San Francisco.”

“She got a passport, she got on a plane and flew home. [the former Immigration and Naturalization Service] I stopped her, she did this four times,” Arthur said. “You know, it’s an abuse of the system.”

Despite rampant abuses by both illegal immigrants and birth tourists, many Democrats believe the Trump administration’s efforts to make birthright citizenship available to nearly everyone born on American soil Eager to fight tooth and nail – US law makes an exception for babies born to foreign diplomats.

The lawsuit, led by 22 state attorneys general, was put on hold by District Judge John Cornow, a Reagan appointee, after hearing it Thursday.

The battle is centered entirely on the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to formerly enslaved people. and of the state in which they live. ” The phrase “subject to its jurisdiction” has attracted various interpretations over the years regarding birthright citizenship.

The Trump administration claims it seeks to clarify that the meaning of the phrase within the 14th Amendment pertains only to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.

While Democrats aim to block the order, the White House has indicated it is ready to take the fight all the way to the nation’s highest court.

“The Department of Justice vigorously defends President Trump’s EO and correctly interprets the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We look forward to presenting the full merits argument. [Supreme] A Department of Justice spokesperson previously told the Daily Caller.

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