Vice President JD Vance sat down for an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham where he stated that there’s actually a “big silver lining” in the recent ruling striking down President Donald Trump’s executive order outlawing birthright citizenship handed down by the Supreme Court. The order was designed to put an end to birth tourism, which is when companies help illegal aliens come to the U.S. to give birth to their children on American soil.
As the 14th Amendment stands now, those children would automatically become U.S. citizens. When they reach adulthood, those children can then sponsor their parents to come to the country legally. Vance told Ingraham during their interview that despite the overall disappointment of conservatives in the court’s decision, there is a bright side.
“I know a lot of conservatives, Laura, certainly the people that I’m talking to, that you’re talking to, are extremely disappointed in this, but I do actually think there’s a really big silver lining here, and that’s the simple fact that a lot of legal experts expected this case to go the wrong direction by seven to two, or even eight to one,” Vance told Ingraham.
“The fact that this case was a 5-to-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread,” the vice president explained during his appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” according to a report published by The New York Post.
The report revealed that Chief Justice John Roberts and conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett were joined by the liberals on the bench, including Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor, in saying that President Trump’s order was unconstitutional and a violation of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees any person born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the order was not a violation of the 14th Amendment, however, it did violate a federal law that was passed in the 1940s and 1950s. Vance further elaborated on his point about a “silver lining” in the ruling by pointing out that it proves we need to be more aware of who is coming into the country and repair the immigration system further.
“What I take from [the ruling] is, yes, we’ve got to fix the immigration system even more, we have to be even more aware of who’s coming into our country to make sure that they’re not benefiting from this atrocious Supreme Court ruling,” Vance said during the interview, adding “but it also means that we have to keep fighting … because we actually have an opportunity to reverse this decision.”
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Vance then stated that the court’s “major, major mistake” might lead pregnant foreign nationals to “come here quite literally on a vacation, give birth, and then all of a sudden the child and their family have the full benefits of American citizenship.” He concluded by adding that, “It’s just a preposterous ruling, and the absurdity of that outcome suggests why the Supreme Court should have went the other way.”
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