Remember those 70,000 Afghans imported into this country since Joe Biden’s debacle in August? You can now make that roughly 70,250 and growing, as at least 250 Afghan infants have since been born to the so-called “humanitarian parolees” still residing in military camps scattered across America. And, thanks to a tortured reading of the 14th Amendment more than a century ago that gave us the concept of birthright citizenship, those infants are now full-fledged U.S. citizens and no one the least bit related to them need ever fear removal again. They are anchor babies, i.e., “Automatic Americans.”
Not that they’d be in any danger of deportation from the regime currently in power in Washington. Given the overwhelming likelihood that any Afghani-born American citizen will vote Democrat, it’s the more, the merrier, as far as our rulers are concerned.
The United States is one of only two countries in the developed world that have such a policy as birthright citizenship (the other is our benighted neighbor to the north). In our case, the policy stems from a somewhat murky decision rendered by the Supreme Court in 1898 in the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark. In that case, one Wong Kim Ark, who had been born to Chinese parents in San Francisco in 1873, was later denied re-entry to the United States after a trip abroad. He sued, and ultimately the Court, in a decision running counter to earlier cases involving the “Citizenship Clause,” agreed that he had been conferred U.S. citizenship by being born in the U.S. Chief Justice Melville Fuller and Associate Justice John Harlan dissented, but the majority ruled, and a potentially suicidal national policy was born out of muddle-headed judiciocratic thinking.
President Donald Trump had promised in his 2016 campaign to issue an executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, but no such order was ever forthcoming. And so, those 250 Afghani anchor babies have joined the nearly five million such Automatic Americans already here, with no doubt more on the way.
For more, see Breitbart News.