On May 30 of this year, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign released the following statement, “As part of my plan to secure the border, on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship.”
Trump continued, “My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming, and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back to their home countries.” You can read Trump’s full statement here.
This is an excellent statement from Trump. A critic may raise the point that Trump talked about this as part of his 2016 campaign, but never pursued the issue seriously during his term in office. That’s a fair criticism, one that I share. But his inaction during his first term in office doesn’t negate the truth of what he said in his press release. Further, as far as I’m aware, no other current Republican candidate has made a statement on birthright citizenship reform.
Under the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment, the children born on American soil to illegal aliens, birth tourists, foreign students, etc. are granted the status of American citizens, regardless of the citizenship or immigration status of their parents. In other words, it is foreigners, not the American people, who determine who becomes a citizen and who does not. This situation is entirely unacceptable to anyone who believes in the principles of Westphalian sovereignty established under the Peace of Westphalia, in which the nation-state was established as the highest form of government, where each nation-state was treated like a legal person in international law, and where the people of each nation-state could order their own internal affairs as it saw fit.
I’ve written on the issue of birthright citizenship (BRC) reform in the past, but it has been a while and the importance of the issue remains. For these reasons, I’ve decided to write a series on this topic. In this author’s opinion, reforming BRC to remove the nation-destroying incentives that encourage foreigners to violate American immigration law is the single most important legal step needed to end Rome’s illegal alien invasion of the United States. Note, I do not say that it’s the only legal step needed, but it is the most important one. It’s more important than building a wall, which was the primary immigration initiative of the first Trump administration. You could argue that reforming BRC is, in effect, a sort of internal, invisible, legal wall.
The logic of BRC reform is simple, if you remove a huge incentive for illegal immigration, you’re going to get less illegal immigration.
Lux Lucet 
Steve, in trying to be optimistic and with the hopes that the Almighty will frustrate (Psalm 2:4-9) the RCCS agenda, even though He has decreed persecutions, etc. from Catholics, it just seems that there are too many Jesuits in power now. When Fox settled the lawsuit with Dominion, that stopped evidence from going to court (civil and criminal). Just like Latin America, they are going to rig it again. Instead of a true revival of the Reformation, we are headed for more and more LIBERAL dominance, and or a False Conservative Chrisitan Nationalistic dominance which could resemble the Spanish Inquisition if theology turns into “political correctness”. With so much apostasy, Biblically, more and more Judgements will follow, and wicked governments are instrumental in the Almighty Judging sin. Whether liberal Catholicism or Conservative Catholicism, one of the 2 will dominate this country, unless the tongue speaking Pentecostals continue hijacking Christian Reconstructionism. Either way, the US is no longer Protestant.
Hi Tommy. Good to hear from you. Things look pretty bleak at the moment. It may well be that the American republic is over. IMO, the next 17 months are likely to answer that question one way or the other. I’m skeptical that we’re going to be able to vote our way out of this. Ultimately, the issue is not one of politics, but rather is a spiritual matter as you noted. The root of the problem in America and the west is that Christianity, by which I mean the reformed faith, has disappeared from the west. A new Reformation is needed. Perhaps the Lord will be gracious to us and cause that to happen. Perhaps he won’t and we sink back into medieval feudalism. That’s certainly what the Catholics want. In either case, it’s imperative for Christians to understand, believe and teach the truth. The Lord is faithful and will not forget our labors.