by Ben Whedon
The Department of Justice on Tuesday warned that it would aggressively prosecute persons suspected of engaging in birth tourism schemes to secure citizenship for their children after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship.
“Birth tourism schemes exploit our immigration laws and often violate our criminal laws,” the DOJ posted. “The Department of Justice will prioritize the prosecutions of birth tourism schemes across the country. Actors seeking to exploit loopholes to obtain automatic citizenship for their children pose a national security threat and will be brought to justice.”
The Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Barbara on Tuesday that children born in the U.S. to persons in the United States temporarily or unlawful are U.S. citizens automatically under the 14th Amendment.
The ruling did not render laws outlawing birth tourism unconstitutional, nor did it prohibit the prosecution of persons attempting to secure birthright citizenship for their children through birth tourism.
President Donald Trump has since urged Congress to pass legislation to either limit or end birthright citizenship, though the ability of the legislature to do so without a constitutional amendment remains unclear.
After the ruling came down, the president said on Truth Social that “The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process.”
“No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!” he added.
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Ben Whedon is a reporter for Just the News.  Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
