The battle of Birthright Citizenship continues

at 7.40 in the morning over to the Legacy Retirement Group.com phone line. Let's check in with Hannah Davis from Fair Federation for American Immigration Reform. Hannah, thanks for the time this morning. How are you? I'm doing good. Thanks for having me back on. Yeah, good to talk to you again. So at issue, we're talking about birthright citizenship. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court decided to keep birthright citizenship as the law of the land. And President Trump is kind of resorting to some executive orders. They're sort of narrower in scope to try to get around this. Can you talk about that for a second? Yeah, that's exactly right. Back in June, Supreme Court struck down Trump's executive order, 6.3. And then back on the 6th of this month, he issued two executive orders, one on birthright citizenship and one on birth tourism. The first one on birthright citizenship, essentially what the administration is doing is expanding the categories of people that they consider ineligible for birthright citizenship. So these are alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations, of course. And then a little bit more controversial is categories of people who lobby or act on behalf of foreign governments or children of diplomats, ambassadors, embassy workers, that kind of thing. So it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. But for all sense and purposes, these can pass constitutional muster. I mean, these are legally validated means to pass these executive orders. So it'll be interesting. And that's the one on birthright citizenship. And then the one on birth tourism essentially is doing, you know, exactly what the administration attempted to do. previously, but it denies visas to people seeking entry to the United States to have a child. It's basically going to be targeting this insidious birth tourism industry and the operations that go with it. And so what they're doing is using a commonly unused portion of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which grants the president authority to set restrictions on non-citizens entering and exiting the United States. So it'll also be very interesting to see. if this will pass constitutional muster as well. Yeah, I mean, that's been abused. I mean, we can talk about birthright citizenship as it was guaranteed under, I believe, the 14th Amendment. But then it was meant for something different than, you know, having a kid in this country simply because you wanted to have an American citizen in this country. Exactly right. This is a horribly abused loophole, and it's metastasizing worldwide. We've got individuals in China and in Russia who are paying these births. tourism agencies upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars to have a kid in the u.s to raise them in china or russia with no loyalty to the u.s and then when they're 21 they can come back and it's called chain migration they can sponsor all their immediate family relatives it's a horrible thing we've got going so hopefully this can crack down on that yeah so they they they're they're born here then they go and get raised in their their home country and then they can come back and they're they're they can run for office right i mean they're there's u.s citizens

Yeah, for all sense and purposes, yes. Exactly right. Yeah, Hannah Davis from Fair. So you say that the EOs pass all the tests, that there's no reason that those shouldn't be moved forward? The majority of them, yes. The majority of the substance of them, yes. There is one part in the birthright citizenship order where the administration is barring citizenship to those born in U.S. territories, but of course Congress must pass a law first for that specific aspect of that order to go through. But otherwise, I think these are legally validated means. It'll be interesting to see people trying to fight them in court. Anybody who's trying to fight the birth tourism order would have to admit that they're trying to justify how any perceived visa fraud should still equate to entry into the United States. I think it's a hard position to defend. It absolutely is a hard position to defend. Let's talk about TPS, temporary protected status, specifically in Ohio. That officially ended for Haitian immigrants back in June. And this hits... Central Ohio, pretty much square between the eyes and Springfield and Central and Southwest Ohio, anywhere from 15,000 to roughly 30,000 people, they got to go home. And it's, you know, you feel for some of these people who are trying to live an honest life and make a living, but I don't know what part of temporary they didn't get. That's exactly right. And it's a shame that it's gone on for so long that these people felt like their status was no longer temporary. And they're kind of being uprooted, right? And it's awkward for everyone around. But yeah, there's about 350,000 individuals that are Haitian that have TPS that's been terminated. And a lot of them, as you mentioned, live in the Ohio area. And there's an ice field office about an hour south of Springfield. And Haitians are been told to check in. for ankle monitoring and it's really ruffling some feathers we've had about over five hundred people protesting i believe they're still there right now uh... but it's you know it's manufactured outrage it's righteous resistance right because these individuals have to go they're following the letter of the law and i'd like to point out that any a patient that's checking in and receiving an ankle monitor chose that uh... they could have accepted the fact that they need to be deported and they would have received twenty six hundred dollars in payment to do so so they they'd send no to that They're staying. They got the monitor. They can't leave 75 miles from their home without permission from ICE. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I mean, you know, I know even in really, really left-leaning jurisdictions like New York City, Zohran Mamdani's already said, hey, we've got to terminate. We've got to fire anyone who has, who's a Haitian that had TPS because we're following what the Supreme Court said. It's the letter of the law. These people got to go. It is what it is. And again, you feel bad for them because you look at the conditions in Haiti, largely run by gangs, fairly deplorable conditions there. They don't want to go. Are there any concessions being made to send these folks elsewhere and not necessarily to Haiti?

I haven't seen anything on that. No, that might be a workaround, but I haven't seen anything. I have heard that Ohio's governor, Mike DeWine, he thinks it's going to hurt the local economy, but I can guarantee I can say right now that there are Americans who would gladly accept any job a Haitian had, and they'll do it well.