{"id":2621995,"date":"2026-07-01T07:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/birthplace-citizenship-is-incompatible-with-mass-immigration\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:57:14","slug":"birthplace-citizenship-is-incompatible-with-mass-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/birthplace-citizenship-is-incompatible-with-mass-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthplace Citizenship Is Incompatible With Mass Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbirthplace-citizenship-is-incompatible-with-mass-immigration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2621995&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the recent Supreme Court decision upholding birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, highlighting the controversy and the dissenting opinions that criticize the majority&#8217;s reasoning. The author warns that the ruling\u2019s negative implications are exacerbated by the current U.S. immigration policies, particularly under the Biden administration, which has facilitated large-scale illegal immigration. He argues that granting citizenship to children born to foreign nationals in a context of mass immigration risks transforming the American identity, as it blurs the meaning of citizenship and encourages unassimilated communities with loyalties outside the U.S. If unchecked,this could lead to America becoming a fragmented,multicultural society with declining cohesion,similar to Europe\u2019s experience with immigrant communities. The author contends that historically,birthplace citizenship worked as a tool for assimilation,especially when immigration was controlled,but recent changes and policies threaten to engulf the nation in permanent,disloyal enclaves,ultimately endangering American sovereignty and self-governance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A lot of people on the right are understandably upset about the Supreme Court\u2019s decision this week upholding birthplace citizenship under the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment. It\u2019s easy to see why. All one has to do is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/25-365_4hdj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read the scathing dissents<\/a> by Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, which expose the flawed reasoning and intellectual dishonesty of the 5-4 majority \u2014 a majority that was clearly searching for a specific policy outcome and justifying it under the color of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>But let me offer a cautious caveat to the black-pilling. The court\u2019s decision wouldn\u2019t be the catastrophe that it is if we hadn\u2019t just lived through a Democrat administration that demonstrated what a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >dangerous weapon mass illegal immigration<\/a> can be in the hands of left-wing ideologues who want to remake America.<\/p>\n<p>There is a plausible world in which birthplace citizenship might be sound public policy. But that world is one in which immigration is restricted in ways that it hasn\u2019t been for generations, and the border is sealed in ways it never has been before. In that scenario, granting citizenship to the native-born children of foreign nationals does a lot of the heavy lifting of assimilation. It gives immigrant families a stake in the nation, imposes obligations of service, and invites them to sink deep roots in American soil.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, under conditions of mass immigration, conferring citizenship on every person born here renders the entire concept of citizenship meaningless and destroys the nation. If anyone can become a citizen simply by accident of their birth in this country, and citizenship is effectively open to everyone in the world, then an \u201cAmerican\u201d is anyone who can manage to get here and start a family.<\/p>\n<p>That is what we had under the Biden administration. In the four years from 2021 to 2025, at least 12 million foreign nationals (and possibly as many as 20 million) entered the United States illegally. They knowingly broke our laws and snuck over the border, in most cases after paying cartel-connected smugglers in Mexico. The Biden administration released these people on parole, gave them work permits, and retroactively granted them legal status through bureaucratic legerdemain (TPS or some similar program). Absent mass deportations on a scale we have yet to see from the Trump administration, millions of these people \u2014 who demonstrated their unfitness for citizenship by crossing the border illegally and breaking our laws, committing fraud against us all \u2014 will remain in our country forever. They will have children here, and their children will be U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Given this backdrop, it doesn\u2019t take a genius to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/young-americans-must-lead-the-way-in-opposing-additional-covid-shutdowns\/\" title=\"Young ...ns Must Lead The Way In Opposing Additional COVID Shutdowns\">long-term consequences<\/a> of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling. If we allow millions of people to enter our country illegally every year, and then grant citizenship to their children, after a decade or so we won\u2019t be the same country. It will completely transform America. Arguably, it already has.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it didn\u2019t have to be this way. Under normal circumstances \u2014 a controlled border, no mass illegal (or legal) immigration, and competent federal enforcement of our immigration laws \u2014 birthplace citizenship actually makes a certain kind of sense.<\/p>\n<p>After all, no self-governing republic can survive with large pockets of permanently domiciled noncitizens. When you allow people into your country permanently, but do not offer them or their offspring citizenship, what you end up with is what Europe has now: multiple generations of unassimilated communities of foreigners, taking over the country block by block, town by town. They have no real stake in the political life of the nation because they lack the rights and responsibilities that come with citizenship, and their children are raised in what amounts to a nation-within-a-nation. They become, in short, a fifth column. And in time, an occupying force. <\/p>\n<p>In countries like France and Britain, which have large numbers of Muslim migrants, this means multigenerational communities of non-citizens with a totally different cultural and political worldview \u2014 one that\u2019s openly hostile to the host country. They will eventually, as they are beginning to do now, carve out their own insular polities within the nation, Balkanizing the country and destroying the possibility of republican self-government or even the possibility of national survival. An Islamified Britain will no longer be Britain, but something else.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time, America was able to avoid this fate, thanks partly to our geography and partly to the limits and controls we placed on immigration. While it might not have been the intent of the drafters of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment to confer citizenship on all those born here, the effects of birthplace citizenship were not disastrous. We were able to absorb and assimilate foreign families, most of whom hailed from Europe, and within one or two generations there wasn\u2019t much difference between the children of recent European immigrants and the children of native-born Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But from 1965 onward, after our immigration regime changed to one based on family reunification, and immigration shifted from Europe to Asia and South America, everything changed. Mass immigration, coupled with the cultural dissimilarity of the sending countries, transformed birthplace citizenship from a lever of assimilation to a wrecking ball of national identity and culture. And now that the Supreme Court has decided, against the overwhelming weight of historical evidence, that the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment means granting citizenship to the children of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/birthright-citizenship-is-a-feudal-relic-it-has-no-place-in-america\/\" title=\"Birthright ... Is A Feudal Relic. It Has No Place In ...\">foreign nationals born<\/a> in the U.S., the stage is set for a complete transformation of our country.<\/p>\n<p>Because eventually, a Democrat administration will once again occupy the White House. And when that happens, millions of illegal immigrants from every corner of the globe will pour across our southern border, most of them to remain forever. Their children, thanks to the Supreme Court, will become U.S. citizens but remain unassimilated, living in discrete ethnic communities with loyalties and allegiances to their families\u2019 nations of origin.<\/p>\n<p>By the time it\u2019s obvious and undeniable what a profound mistake it was to combine mass immigration with birthplace citizenship, it will be too late. America as a nation and a republic will be finished. We\u2019ll be something else entirely: a Balkanized, polyglot empire peopled not by self-governing citizens, but by subjects.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&#038;qid=1695306441&#038;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right-wing upset over SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2621996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Migrants.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[82019,7161,36382,41213,82020],"class_list":["post-2621995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-birthplace","tag-citizenship","tag-immigration-policy","tag-mass-immigration","tag-population-sovereignty"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Migrants.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621999,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621995\/revisions\/2621999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2621996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}