Made in China: Birth Certificates, Passports, and Citizenship. Birthright Betrayal Suicide Pact

Given the fact that I literally had to spell out—step by painful step—the clear and present dangers of birthright citizenship to a smug Leftist demanding an explanation and proof as to how it was or is “even remotely dangerous,” I’m more convinced than ever that a large swath of the Democrat electorate is either civically and Constitutionally illiterate or blissfully ignorant and therefore unable to grasp the stakes at play here.

Clearly, some or possibly the majority are fully, or I should say, sophomorically aware of the pernicious nature and ramifications of birthing tourism but shrug it off anyway because they just don’t care; their Socialist, Communist, and Radical Islamic elected champions in Congress certainly know but couldn’t care less either because they are all about engineering elections to protect their party and preserve their positions in power above people, principle, and our Constitutional Republic no matter where or who the votes come from—what harm could one more scheme do, right? So why let trivial inconveniences like our National Security, Sovereignty, or the actual integrity of American citizenship ruin the Democrats' glorious dream of a One-World-Order open-border utopia? After all, nothing supports their claims of being the party of “Diversity and Inclusion” quite like converting maternity wards into drive-thru citizenship factories for our nation’s adversaries “who chant death to America,” but I digress . . .

In any case, whether the Democrat base understands the 14th Amendment, the precise meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”—full allegiance to this Republic, not partial loyalty to a foreign power—or even that the amendment exists is almost beside the point. What matters more to them than safeguarding this self-governing Republic, even for the sake of their own children and future generations of red-blooded Americans, is how they’re perceived. Because in the woke world, it’s image über alles—above all.

They’re so pathetically phony and insecure that they’d rather be thought of as “good, kind, caring, inclusive, tolerant people” than actually embody those virtues with the courage and conviction it requires. The mere prospect of being called a racist, Islamophobe, xenophobe—or any other “-ist” or “-ism” in between—true or fabricated, utterly terrifies them more than the grave dangers birthright citizenship imposes on this country, their families, and yes, their own children. Better to risk national security than to risk losing the echo-chamber pats on the back. Virtue without vertebrae.

So, let’s spell it out for the convenience of sharing it with these Marxist morons:

The 14th Amendment, ratified July 9, 1868, does not say that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens. It says that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” are citizens. That second, crucial, conditional phrase is conveniently ignored or deliberately misinterpreted by Progressive proponents of birthright citizenship for obvious electioneering reasons, as I discussed earlier.

This Amendment’s language was derived from the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which provided that “All persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power” would be considered citizens.

The 14th Amendment was ratified post-Civil War to secure citizenship for freed slaves—not to create a global maternity ward or to reward unlawful migration. At the time, during the 1^st session of the 39^th Congress, Senator Lyman Trumbull—a key figure in the adoption of the 14th Amendment and author of the Civil Rights Act of 1866—and others made it crystal clear that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” meant complete political jurisdiction and direct, unwavering allegiance to the United States of America only: not owing loyalty to a foreign sovereign, not to diplomats, not to foreign or invading armies, and logically not to those here illegally or on temporary holiday visas. 

Yet today, this has morphed into an industrial magnet. Estimates range anywhere from 250,000 to 320,000+ babies born annually to illegal aliens—that is approximately 9% of U.S. births—creating “anchor babies” that, by proxy, not only enable chain migration but also give illegal migrants access to welfare programs and resources they never paid into. Additionally, it has resulted in sustained generational changes to America’s demographic, cultural, and electoral landscape. Dearborn, Michigan, for example—a city of approximately 110,000 people that, in less than 20 years, went from being a predominantly Judeo-Christian district to being a majority—54.5% to 55%—Muslim district.

Birthing tourism compounds this, with tens of thousands from China and Russia alone, with agencies openly advertising U.S. citizenship as the prize for a pricey stateside delivery.

Make no mistake, this isn’t just another abstract policy disagreement. This is dangerous. It’s sovereign suicide.

Our adversaries aren’t stupid; they are actively exploiting it, not only for dual-loyalty footholds that are impossible to root out decades later, but also in ways that threaten our national security and sovereignty for influence and espionage assets and activities.

Most countries get this. The U.S. and Canada stand alone amongst developed nations with such unrestricted jus soli—citizenship that is acquired by birth within a territory or state, regardless of parental citizenship or legal status. Europe, Asia, and others overwhelmingly use jus sanguinis, i.e., citizenship by blood/parentage or strict conditions—precisely because handing out citizenship like candy to anyone dropping a baby on your soil is a sovereignty surrender most sane nations outright reject. 

China has industrialized birth tourism into a national security weapon. According to investigative journalist Peter Schweizer in Congressional testimony, there are more than 1,000 Chinese birth tourism companies openly advertising concierge packages costing upwards of $100,000—including travel, medical arrangements, and quick return flights after the child receives a U.S. birth certificate and passport. Clients are largely CCP-connected elites, military officers, intelligence personnel, and propaganda officials. Chinese officials and data suggest 50,000 or more such births in the United States annually, which have produced an estimated 750,000 to 1.5 million U.S.-citizen children over the past 15 years—raised and indoctrinated in China under the CCP.

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. Barbara, we can most certainly expect those numbers to skyrocket now that the door has been flung wide open for China and our other adversaries to accelerate their efforts to manufacture American citizens on U.S. soil who will grow up with genuine U.S. birth certificates, Social Security numbers, and passports—but with absolutely zero lived allegiance or cultural ties to America.

Then:

1)— At 18, these “citizens” can vote via mail-in ballot from China or Russia or any other number of enemy states. They can also donate to political campaigns, apply for jobs requiring security clearances, military service, intelligence roles, or sensitive tech/defense positions.

2)— At 21, they can sponsor their parents and extended family members for green cards via chain migration, thereby accelerating demographic and political influence.

Perfect little assets for espionage, influence ops, and some good old-fashioned subversion—a bargain, wouldn’t you agree? Our adversaries invest a modest sum up front, pocket change, really, at least for the CCP and Kremlin, and in return, they get decades of ironclad plausible deniability—after all, it’s hard to catch a traitor when he’s flashing a genuine American passport stamped “Made in China,” with Beijing’s marching orders tattooed to his brain in invisible ink.

And then there’s Russia. It runs parallel schemes. For example, FBI probes, such as Operation Miami Mama, targeted South Florida outfits, uncovering companies helping wealthy and politically connected Russian women give birth in the U.S. on tourist visas—often with fraudulent applications. Like China, these children are returned to Russia—once they receive their birth certificates, Social Security Numbers, and American passports—where they are raised, potentially indoctrinated, and later used as deep cover assets in Moscow's historical “Illegals Program,” where they are reinserted into the United States as spies: again, U.S. citizens with no bonds of affection to their birthplace, but with full mobility and access to sensitive areas.

As it pertains to Radical Islamic Terrorists, the same “citizen with foreign loyalties”—or, in this particular case, extremist ideologies—dynamic applies, but they exploit birthright citizenship to hurt and carry out attacks on the United States differently than China and Russia do—primarily through illegal entries and visa overstays. You see, like all illegal migration, anchor babies complicate deportations, further shielding terrorist networks, not only enabling future recruitment of citizens with constitutional protections and travel freedoms but also allowing terrorist cells or networks to embed deeper through chain migration—paving the path for even more attacks or support roles that Middle Eastern nationals would ordinarily struggle to sustain.

The long game is election engineering and infiltration with one goal: destroy America.

Birthright citizens from enemy nations, from these schemes—from illegal migration, visa overstays, and birthing tourism—eventually vote, run for office, including the presidency at age 35, and sponsor family members through chain migration who can then naturalize and also vote. These schemes, over the course of 18 or so years, as I mentioned earlier, not only result in a demographic and, ultimately, a cultural shift, particularly through illegal migration, visa overstays, and chain migration, but inevitably also an electoral or political shift in key districts/states through the aforementioned schemes, with the addition of birthing tourism. We are currently witnessing this overwhelming shift in places like Dearborn, Michigan, and Minnesota—with New York and other Blue States and districts, etc., on their heels—with the infiltration of Muslim migrant citizens who not only appear to hate America and Americans but whose loyalties remain attached to other nations, like Somalia for example, refusing to assimilate, yet nonetheless, still influencing American policy toward more permissive immigration as they multiply like bunny rabbits, building up voting blocs and communities that are utterly detached and uninterested in traditional American values and interests, but moreover, in destroying and fundamentally transforming America into a Muslim majority nation.

This is why many national security experts refer to unrestricted birthright citizenship as a “suicide pact.” It hands our adversaries the tools they need to manufacture citizens on our soil without our consent or vetting, which is why, after Tuesday’s unconscionable majority Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. Barbara authorizing unrestricted jus soli birthright citizenship, Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Gorsuch, argued in his 91-page dissent that the majority had “Repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect its own set of preferred rights that the Reconstruction Congress never contemplated . . .” Going on to note that the Court’s ruling “Adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment . . . which has instead been repurposed for political projects . . .” Concluding by writing: “The Citizenship Clause added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship. Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship. I respectfully dissent.”

Likewise, Justice Samuel Alito railed against the ruling in an excoriating dissent, arguing that the justices misinterpreted the 14^th Amendment, writing that only people who owe their full allegiance to the United States, and not another country, should automatically receive citizenship at birth. Warning that “the ruling could be exploited by foreign nationals from enemy nations” seeking to harm or destroy America and Americans through persons born here through birthing tourism.

While Justice Kavanaugh disagreed with the majority’s twisted “Constitutional holding on the 14^th Amendment,” he sided with them, albeit partially, concluding that Trump’s Executive Order conflicted with 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a). However, he suggested that Congress could easily rectify this—consistent with the 14th Amendment—by amending §1401(a), or alternatively, by enacting new legislation “establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country.”

Ergo, Congress must pass legislation outlawing birthright citizenship, because it clearly deviates from the 14th Amendment’s original intent—“subject to the jurisdiction thereof” implying full, exclusive allegiance, as debated in 1866. 

However, if Congress fails to do its job, President Trump should and must put a stop to all immigration unless and until a statutory fix is implemented—one defining jurisdiction to exclude children of illegal aliens or temporary visitors. It is the only practical way to remedy this. It would close this birthright citizenship loophole without the need for a Constitutional Amendment, thereby ending incentives and vulnerabilities that our enemies, China, Russia, terrorists, and other adversaries are currently exploiting.

Allowing the world to infiltrate our borders is not compassion. It is unilateral disarmament that poses a grave National Security threat that “tolerant” posturing can’t wish away. Courage means securing the Republic first—then debating generosity on our terms.

Stewing inside the Democrats' echo chamber and clinging to their performative Social Justice Warrior claims of “Diversity and Inclusion” while our borders bleed isn’t virtue. It’s abdication cloaked as morality. Congress must pass clarifying legislation to restore the original intent of the 14th Amendment and close these loopholes. Our sovereignty, and the future of this Republic for our children, not only demands it but depends on it.

Linda Genzel Editor @WECU News

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