BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP 7-1-26
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28 segmentsScrolling with Haley. I'm Haley Karenia. I scroll with the homies here in the live chat because there's a lot to scroll through on X, on Instagram, on TikTok. Cutting through the clutter, one hot take at a time. Love seeing you all in the chat before the show. I tried to jump in just a few minutes before to say hello. I love the chat interaction. Thank you for helping. But I do it to get all of the videos and all of the content that you won't find anywhere else. Scrolling with Haley. Just search that up and I will be there. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. We're back here on Yaffe Live. Someone weighed in on our text monster. You can always weigh in. Sponsored by Warren Griffin, Chattanooga's largest injury law firm, reminding you to never text and drive. 423-267-102-3. One person said, just leave those folks on top of the Empire State Building. They will come down on their own when they're hungry, like cats. So, you know, when cats get up a tree, just wait until they're ready to come down. I got in trouble one time for telling the lady, I said, lady, have you ever seen a cat dead in the top of a tree? They will come down. Yeah, they'll figure it out at some point. We had the fire department out there to help get her kitty out of the tree. My cat used to, so when I was running a house, I had like a screen in porch years ago. My cat would climb up on top of that. All the time. I lived it to again school for 20 years, but we lived out back behind the school. I was keeping the eye on the school. My cat used to get up on top of the school. Oh, really? Yeah. That's funny. I really don't know how the cat got up there. Or down, I guess. Yeah, but we'd come in and it could be on top of the school. That was amazing. It is kind of funny how that happens. But I'm pretty sure they did just let the... The people come down on their own. I don't think the cops went up there. I think they just basically waited and then arrested them when they were down. All right. The beginning of the show today, a little bit earlier on, we were talking about this issue of birthright citizenship. Of course, the Supreme Court. I did want to get into some of the reaction here, but I also wanted to read a little bit more about this. I had at my Tennessee bullet points. But Tennessee congressman introduces Bill to ban birthright tourism. So hours after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles introduced a bill that would ban pregnant non-immigrants from coming to America. I'm reading this at the Tennessee Conservative, by the way. You should subscribe to that site. In a five to four decision, the court ruled that an executive order from President Donald Trump's administration to overhaul birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. Now, Chief Justice John Roberts cited an 1898 case that upheld citizenship for children born in the U.S. two people from China. He said, children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present here are thus subject to the nation's jurisdiction. Now, I tend to believe John Roberts just didn't want to go against precedent. So he was going to figure out a way to make sure that it stayed the way it was. That's just how John Roberts is sometimes. Now, Andy Ogles said the decision was not only a betrayal of American sovereignty, but a direct attack on our national security. So Andy Ogles has put forward a bill called the Anchors Away Act. It says a person is only subject to the jurisdiction of the United States if at least one of the parents is an American citizen or legal immigrant. By the way, Andy Ogles, I mean, he's probably going to win his district, but because we redrew districts in Tennessee is a little bit more of a competition there.
I have to point that out. He's usually one who just does things to get attention, but I tend to think that we should pass a law on this. Now, it's my understanding only about 26,000 babies are born in the U.S. every year from birthright tourism, as they call it. Now, that's 26,000 too many, but that's barely, it's less than 1% of the 3 million that are born every year in the country as a whole, babies. Now, Ogle said because of birthright citizenship, foreigners are being born on our soil, groomed by communists and globalists, and embedded into our society. They are running for political offices. They are collecting American benefits, and they are actively colonizing our country. Kind of an extreme way to put it, but he is right. There are some now winning political office that were born into this country, went back overseas for years. came back over here, bringing the radical views with them, and unfortunately able to win political office. So Andy Ogles said his bill is a legislative solution. He said we are co-equal branches of government. Our founding fathers warned us against an all-too-powerful judiciary, and you can now see that playing out. Now, Democrats called it a victory. The chairwoman of the Tennessee Democratic Party said in response to all this, she said, we celebrate today's ruling as a victory for the Constitution and for every family whose future was put at risk by the administration's attempt to redefine American citizenship. Instead of doing anything to make life better or more affordable, Republicans from the White House to our state house continue to use racism, cruelty, and fear as weapons to hold on to power. Okay, typical response there. As I said at the beginning of the show, my general reaction as a, you know, a simple man, not a lawyer or whatever, is that it seems hard for me to believe that the framers of the 14th Amendment would put the word subject to the jurisdiction thereof and not mean it. And basically say, yeah, but that only includes diplomats and Native Americans. And everyone else, they're citizens. It just seems a little silly to me to say that's just how it was. Now, Speaker of that was Mike Johnson, he reacted to this, and he said as well that Congress needs to look into some of this and maybe pass a law to fix some things. This has been grossly abused in recent years, okay? And that is the case that was being made by the plaintiffs in the case. And we were very sympathetic to that because it is a serious problem. We have, you know, it's become a tourism, birthing tourism. I'm very disappointed in that outcome. I think it subjects the country to serious challenges going forward and we'll have to deal with it as a Congress. All right. So, and Trump basically said the same thing that Congress needs to pass a law. And the reason why we're going down the road of maybe passing a law is Justice Brett Kavanaugh said it's not unconstitutional. It's not unconstitutional to get rid of birthright citizenship. It just can't be done by executive order. It would have to be done through a while by Congress. So now that's going to be the big push. Still going to be hard to pass because, of course, we have a split Congress. Another reason we need to win more elections. Now, Attorney General Todd Blanche reacted to this today as well. Here's what he said about. This is a big.
Might be nice if I actually push the right button here. Let's try it again. From a Department of Justice standpoint, it's obviously focusing our prosecutors and our law enforcement partners on birthing tourism, and it's a booming industry, and it will continue, given the Supreme Court's decision yesterday. There's other things that DHS can do and the federal government can do in the visa process and the application process to try to minimize or limit the opportunity of folks coming here to not to visit and not to do what they're... saying they're doing on their tourist visa, but just to have a baby that can then be a U.S. citizen. So from our standpoint, it's focusing on what is a problem. So everybody should agree that it's a violation of our laws. If you're intent in coming here, if you're pregnant, is to have a child to become a United States citizen because of our now laws. And so what we have to do is the Department of Justice is to make sure our agents or HSI agents that we work with and the FBI are focused. on stopping that. And that's what we're, that's what we're going to do. So I have to say, there's a lot of focus on the, the tourism aspect where certain people are visiting the country as tourists and having babies in order for them to be citizens. As I mentioned, that's a problem, but that's, that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is it's another incentive for illegal immigrants to come into the country. Now, the good news is the border is a lot more secure. We need to pass laws to keep it that way, but the border is a lot more secure. And we can pass laws via the visa process to make sure they don't come here. And we have to deport a legal immigrants who are here. That will fix a lot of the issue when it comes to illegal immigration. Now, Tom Homan, who is the Borders'ar, talked about this as well. Here's what he said. You're exactly right. I mean, the first thing I saw the decision, which I don't agree with, is okay, now we step up enforcement. We step up more enforcement, even though we're doing record amounts of enforcement now, we need to do more. And not only that, we need to, you know, really buckle down on birth tourism. We have many investigations on birth tourism, but we need to triple, triple down on that. And look, I agree with Samuel Alito. You know, first of all, I've been doing this since 1984. That's when I started on board show. This birthright citizenship has always been a major driver for illegal migration. During the Biden administration, the Yuma Hospital, the El Paso hospital, 100% maternity bedger illegal aliens. That's not a coincidence. That's not by accident. But it's always been a driver for illegal immigration. But more importantly, it's a national security issue. Because the birth tour's investigation, I'm aware, we've got nationals from China and Russia coming here by the thousands. having a baby and leaving. Now, so we have U.S. citizens by the thousands and this continued by the millions living in countries that I think are adversaries to us that can come here and have an impact on how this country is run. So it's a national security issue, a huge proportion that we need to address. And I hope Congress does it. All right. So a lot of calls here for Congress to address this issue. We'll have to see what happens, but that seems to be the next. That seems to be the next step here. So we'll have to see what happens in response. If you want to weigh in you can't 423-267-1023, I just have to mention that as bad as that decision was, I still think maybe the worst decision is the one over the Federal Reserve, that somehow there's such an independent agency that a president cannot fire a Federal Reserve governor. It's just that ruling really doesn't make any sense to me.
That, I mean, what that does is creates a fourth branch of government. That somehow, because, oh, it's so important because they deal with the money, that the Federal Reserve is somehow a fourth branch of government now. No, I mean, if you want to make it a fourth branch of government, pass a constitutional amendment. You can do it that way. But you can't just, you can't just say that via a court. But this is, this is kind of where we are now. 423-267-102-3, 423-267-1023. All right, well, on the show with Yaffi's Monster Rewind here in a couple minutes on Yaffe Live. Scrolling with Haley. I'm Haley Kareenia. I scroll with the homies here in the live chat because there's a lot to scroll through on X, on Instagram, on TikTok. Cutting through the clutter, one hot take at a time. Love seeing you all in the chat before the show. I tried to jump in just a few minutes before to say hello. I love the chat interaction. Thank you for helping. But I do it to get all of the videos and all of the content that you won't find anywhere else. Scrolling with Haley. Just search that up and I will be there. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. on.