January 22, 2025
Come here, get pregnant and your baby's a U.S. citizen. Right?There's even an app for that. The CBP app (U.S. Customs and Border Protection). And it's no surprise that Joe made the app possible. Or someone in the White House did...
Now we see a Washington Post photo of a pregnant Prospective-Illegal-Crosser-Of-Our-Border crying in Juarez, Mexico, because the app doesn't work anymore. Boo and hoo. The app went dark at noon when Trump became president! Ain't that special?
Trump is ending Birthright Citizenship, something that should have happened long ago. Liberals and new lawsuits will protest, and insist the Birthright is codified in the14th Amendment.
Legal scholars disagree, and point out that the Amendment was intended to give black slaves and their childen citizenship after the Civil War, and after the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which ruled that enslaved people were not considered citizens of the U.S.
We'll see how it all shakes out. But I know where I stand. When's the last time you got pregnant and went to live and become a citizen of Spain???
Hang tough.