Just as President Trump’s Solicitor General argued against birthright citizenship in front of the Supreme Court, fighting hard against the idea that the children of illegal aliens or legal aliens should automatically be United States citizens, the administration’s argument against the absurd concept received a major vindication in the news.
That news was that two “anchor baby” children whose parents are illegal aliens from the People’s Republic of China have been in America illegally since the 1990s, had been caught attacking a critical American Air Force base in Florida. Such was promulgated by a Department of Homeland Security press release about the attack, one which drew quick attention to the Supreme Court case and the implications of birthright citizenship.
Beginning, the DHS press release noted that the two illegal alien parents of the two attackers had been arrested, saying, “Today, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested the illegal alien parents of Ann Mary Zheng and Alen Zheng – two siblings who are connected to the attempted attack on March 10 on the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.”
Continuing, the statement noted that the two siblings had launched the attack on the critical Air Force base, saying, “According to the Department of Justice, Ann Mary Zheng was charged ‘with assisting after the fact related to her brother, Alen Zheng, placing an improvised explosive device at the MacDill Air Force Base Visitor’s Center in Tampa and evidence tampering.’”
Adding to that, the statement noted that the sister had tried to help hide and protect her brother after he launched the main attack on the base. It provided, “The DOJ added that ‘Ann Mary Zheng, knowing that her brother, Alen Zheng, had attempted to damage government property by fire or explosion, assisted him in order to hinder and prevent his apprehension, trial, and punishment.’”
But what really made the case important and interesting was not the news of the attack itself, as that occurred weeks ago, but rather the fact that the two attackers were birthright citizens whose parents were illegal aliens. DHS noted: “The alleged perpetrators of this attack on a U.S. Air Force base were born in the U.S. after their parents illegally entered the country.”
Building on that, DHS argued that this case in particular shows the immense risks to the American homeland of birthright citizenship, saying, “The attempted attack illustrates why the improper recognition of ‘birthright citizenship’ for children of illegal aliens is not only inconsistent with the Constitution, but endangers all Americans.”
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Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis, commenting on the matter, said, “Automatically granting citizenship to children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. is based on a historically inaccurate interpretation of the Citizenship Clause and poses a major national security risk. That reality became apparent last week when two U.S.-born children of Chinese illegal aliens were indicted for planting a potentially deadly explosive device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.”
Bis added, commenting on the major national security threat of birthright citizenship, particularly as applied to illegal aliens, “This incident underscores the severe national security threat that illegal immigration and birth right citizenship pose to the United States.”
Watch the DOJ comment on the matter here: