America’s Biggest Backdoor Just Got The Deadbolt

President Trump just scored a major win.

Yesterday, he ended birth tourism.

It is long past time. Birthright citizenship has become a loophole you could drive a truck through, and President Trump just shut down one of those gigantic loopholes.

Here’s some of what that loophole has produced:

Hasan Piker: Birthright citizen, born in New Jersey, raised in Turkey and now here, ready, willing and able to destroy Western civilization.

Abdul El-Sayed: Parents immigrated from Egypt, born in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He could end up as our first fully anti-Western senator.

Rashida Tlaib: Born in Detroit, Michigan, her parents came from Judea and Samaria. She is in Congress stumping for the destruction of America’s foundations each and every day.

Francesca Hong: Running for Wisconsin governor; despises America and is a birthright citizen.

These are just some of the big names. Birthright citizenship has meant that people come across our border, have babies, and then are tied into the U.S., all without ever explicitly having to embrace America in any way, shape, or form.

The most obvious symptom of that flaw in our system is birth tourism. That’s where people come here just to have babies.

Birthright citizenship is not mandated by the Constitution. It is not implicit in the 14th Amendment. The Founders did not contemplate the idea of vast illegal immigration to the country, because that concept did not really exist in 1789; many people came to open territory. Nor did the framers of the 14th Amendment in the post-Civil War era consider the idea that there would be a huge tsunami of immigrants from other countries coming here, dropping babies and receiving backdoor citizenship.

All of that was well before the federal government was providing these gigantic government benefits.

Thus the Supreme Court was wrong earlier this year when it ruled that birthright citizenship was mandated by the Constitution.

Now the Trump administration has to do what it can within the bounds of that decision to curb the exploitation of our system, because this is a problem.

There is no federal data on birth tourism, which is astonishing, given that we keep data on pretty much everything. But the Center for Immigration Studies estimated somewhere between 20,000 and 26,000 birth tourists per year back in 2020 by combining CDC birth certificates with American Community Survey data on births to foreign women.

The State Department in June 2026 uncovered birth tourism networks run out of Africa and Europe, where hundreds of foreign nationals would obtain fraudulent visa documents in order to give birth in the United States.

Obviously, we’ve seen huge birth tourism networks springing from China.

A lot of this could miss long-term undocumented or non-citizen residents who were missed by the census. Birth tourism often serves as both the beginning and a hook-and-ladder system for chain migration. It’s the first link in the chain. You put a baby in the U.S.; the baby has a right to stay. Then you make the case that the family also has to stay, and eventually you import the rest of the extended family.

This is true all over the West: Kids are the peg upon which chain migration rests. That’s certainly true in Europe right now. Take Ceuta, for example: after that vast wave of Muslim migrants came from Morocco, the minors are being sent to Spain for processing. Presumably, many of them will end up there, and then their parents will apply to enter as well.

I know there are many people on the Right black-pilling about President Trump. I get it. Let’s be clear: Trump as president is so vastly superior to Kamala Harris that it would make your head explode to consider the alternative.

Let’s start with some white-pilling. On border policy, Trump is the best president of our lifetime, and it is not close. He put out a statement touting this yesterday while pointing out that for 15 straight months, no illegal aliens have been released into the country. This is directly opposed to the Biden border policy, which was essentially releasing anyone who showed up at the border claiming asylum.

The White House stated: 

The Trump administration has deported over 3 million illegal aliens, including thousands convicted for violent crimes. The Trump administration strengthened visa programs and their screenings and paused visa processing for 75 high-risk countries to protect the homeland and deter overstays. The Trump administration terminated taxpayer-funded benefits for over 1.4 million illegal aliens improperly receiving public assistance and banned illegal aliens from more than a dozen taxpayer-funded healthcare programs.

These are all things that never would have happened under Kamala Harris.

Elections have consequences. And one of the tremendous benefits of the last election cycle is that the Trump administration came in and decided to act on Trump’s fundamental promise to crack down on illegal immigration.

Yesterday, the president put out two new executive orders targeting birth tourism.

The first executive order states:

It is the policy of the United States that no executive department or agency shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship to, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship regarding, persons when neither parent of that person is a citizen and any of the following applies: either parent of that person is an alien enemy, defined to include any member of a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization; either parent of that person is a foreign government employee, … either parent of that person engaged in a commercial transaction to purchase or access birthright citizenship for the person, or engaged in fraudulent activity to obtain citizenship, to include: when the parent(s) of the person engage in a commercial transaction to ensure that the person’s mother is present in the United States, or a territory of the United States, to give birth.

The second executive order is really an attempt to strengthen the federal government’s hand against people who are engaged in birth tourism. The goal here is to allow the secretaries of state and homeland security to use all legal authority possible to prevent the entry into the United States of, or the granting of any visa or other travel authorization to, any alien entering or attempting to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in birth tourism and revoking the visa or travel authorization, and permanently barring entry of any alien who enters or attempts to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in birth, tourism and all the like.

This is a win.

When people pretend the parties are exactly the same, this is why no, they are not.

They absolutely are not.