The White House deputy chief of staff said the administration must examine entry rules after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship for children born on U.S. soil.
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said the Trump administration may need to consider restrictions on pregnant foreign tourists after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
Miller made the remarks Tuesday during an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters, who asked whether the United States could consider “banning foreign pregnant women” following the court’s decision.
Miller said the issue of birth tourism now requires serious review, according to video shared on X.
“Well, what I’m saying, Jesse, is that you have to now think very carefully about who you let into your country, even on a temporary basis, because the possibility, as you said, for birth tourism, right? The idea that people come here just to have babies on American soil, and that baby gets to be a citizen for life.
“So you have mothers that come in fully pregnant, have a baby, go home. And again, that baby gets Medicaid and that baby gets welfare, and that baby gets cash assistance and can leave the baby with, you know, a cousin, a relative, whatever. And then to send welfare checks back home, you can support a whole family in the Third world.
“So yes, you can’t have the kinds of immigration programs other countries have when you can just have a baby here and now that child is an American citizen. So there’s a lot of things we’re going to have to take a hard look at, Jesse.”
The comments came after the Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s executive order, which sought to end automatic citizenship for certain children born in the United States to parents who are in the country unlawfully or temporarily.
Miller sharply criticized the decision, calling it “a deep knife wound in the heart of the American republic” and arguing that the majority misread the 14th Amendment.
“Look, Jesse, I can step tomorrow onto the deck of a 747. It does not mean that I am the pilot of that plane and I’m qualified to fly it,” Miller said, according to a second video shared on X. “Just physically being on U.S. soil does not make you a citizen or qualified to carry on or capable of executing the inheritance of this country.”
Miller also mocked the idea that any child born on U.S. soil must automatically receive citizenship, regardless of the parents’ status or connection to the country.
“The idea that you can have a cruise ship filled with foreigners and they just dock at a port for an hour and someone has a baby, Jesse, the baby is an American citizen,” Miller said.
He continued by arguing that the 14th Amendment should not apply to foreign nationals who maintain foreign citizenship and loyalties.
“Look, I know that some of the Justices who worked on this, they think that they’re so intelligent. There is no possible reading of the Fourteenth Amendment that applies to foreigners with foreign loyalties, foreign citizenship, foreign obligations, foreign everything,” Miller said.
“Here’s a pretty good clue your constitutional interpretation is wrong: If your ruling requires you to suicide, your civilization, your reading of the Constitution is wrong.”
Miller said the post-Civil War amendment was not intended to create what he described as automatic citizenship for the children of foreign visitors.
“President [Ulysses S.] Grant and the congressmen in the 19th century did not want to create an automatic third world citizenship requirement for America,” he said.
The remarks signal that the Trump administration may look beyond the failed executive order and explore immigration or visa restrictions aimed at birth tourism after the court left birthright citizenship intact.
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