In this episode, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GAZETTE) takes on the deep state and calls for an end to birthright citizenship as we currently know it. Rep. Gaetz has introduced a bill that would end the practice of allowing anyone born in the United States to become a citizen.
00:00:00.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:19.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:26.000then welcome, my fellow patriots. You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000You ever watch this guy on television? It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.000I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet. Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:46.000They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you. I'm just in the way.
00:00:51.000Welcome back to Firebrand. We're broadcasting live out of room 2021 in the Rayburn House office building here at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C.
00:01:03.000And what a week it is set to be here in Washington. We've got a big hearing on UFOs coming up tomorrow.
00:01:10.000We've got Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security before the House Judiciary Committee.
00:01:17.000We've got tough questions about the state of our border and really the doctrine that Biden, Harris and Mayorkas have put in place to ensure that if people show up on our border and they've got any sort of sad song that is pre-baked by some NGO, they get to come to the country.
00:01:34.000They never have to leave. And then the consequence of that is that they get married, have kids.
00:01:39.000Those kids then by virtue of our laws are automatically citizens. And that's what starts the pulling of chain migration.
00:01:47.000So I have introduced legislation to end birthright citizenship as we currently know it.
00:01:54.000And we ought to end it as we currently know it because birthright citizenship by fraud has started to predominate in a few areas and in a few industries.
00:02:03.000So let me give you the background. In 2021, 400,000 anchor babies were born in the United States, outpacing the births in 49 states.
00:02:14.00049 states. So how has it come to this? How have millions of illegal aliens managed to cross our borders illegally and break our laws?
00:02:22.000Remember, unlawful entry into the country is a crime. It's not one we ever prosecute with any force or deterrent effect, but it is a crime.
00:02:31.000Anchor babies on our soil create this indefinite sanctuary for the parent.
00:02:38.000And that doesn't really make sense with a coordinated organized immigration system either.
00:02:43.000So an erroneous interpretation of the 14th Amendment has found its way into the Immigration and Nationality Act and is now the law of the land.
00:02:52.000That's why I've introduced the End Birthright Citizenship Fraud Act of 2023 to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reflect the original intent of the drafters of the 14th Amendment.
00:03:09.000All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside.
00:03:19.000Insanely, and against the wishes of many of the drafters of the 14th Amendment, the powers that be have interpreted it to give citizenship to virtually every human born on American soil.
00:03:32.000This is not a standard that is largely recognized in the modern world.
00:03:35.480And in America, the key limiting term, subject to the jurisdiction thereof, has been totally cast to the wayside and disregarded despite the Supreme Court having never ruled that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone other than children born to lawful permanent residents.
00:03:56.640They haven't really ruled on the meaning of the clause, particularly subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
00:04:03.120So despite what you may have heard about this unqualified birthright citizenship, it's not ensconced in the 14th Amendment.
00:04:11.080At least the Supreme Court has never said that it is.
00:04:13.600And I'm confident that if they did rule on the subject, they would find that subject to the jurisdiction thereof is a limiting clause.
00:04:22.860If it weren't in the 14th Amendment, a greater group of people would have access to this birthright citizenship, but subject to the jurisdiction thereof is clearly a limiting clause, meaning that only those subject to the jurisdiction of the United States would be granted citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
00:04:42.340Those not covered are at the mercy of Congress, whether you like it or not.
00:04:47.040And we, as the Congress, have every right to exercise power to determine rules for citizenship and naturalization.
00:04:53.340After all, Congress has this power in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution, which says, quote,
00:05:01.500to establish a uniform rule of naturalization.
00:05:04.620That is the statement of the rule in the Constitution as to Congress's powers over this area.
00:05:10.520So what does the phrase subject to the jurisdiction thereof mean when it comes to the 14th Amendment?
00:05:17.040It is a legal term of art, and it was understood by the drafters of the 14th Amendment to have its basis in English common law.
00:05:25.160So we have to go back now and analyze what that English common law educates us on.
00:05:30.440So the earliest known case to articulate this in England, it was agreed that statuses of subject and alien to different things, a binary choice,
00:05:43.260that those were determined by whether a person was born owing an allegiance to the sovereign.
00:05:48.860That actually kind of makes sense in Old World England.
00:05:52.320Whether a person at birth is under the allegiance and obedience to the sovereign is not determined by whether his foreign-born parent is subject to territorial jurisdiction of prosecution.