The Ben Shapiro Show - July 01, 2026


WHAT COMES NEXT After Awful SCOTUS Ruling?


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Ben Shapiro reacts to the Supreme Court's ruling that upholds birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants. He says the ruling is a legal abomination and calls for a constitutional amendment to fix it. And he points out that President Trump is right to be upset about it.

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00:00:00.000 Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld birthright citizenship, and that is a legal abomination.
00:00:05.000 It's legally wrong.
00:00:07.000 But that does not mean that America is doomed to a future of open immigration.
00:00:11.000 In fact, we can fix this, and we have to fix this.
00:00:15.000 Actually, we have branches of government designed to fix this.
00:00:17.000 They are called the executive and the legislative branches of government.
00:00:20.000 And what's more, we may not even be done at the judicial level.
00:00:23.000 We actually don't need a constitutional amendment to fix all of this.
00:00:26.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:36.000 So here's the quick recap from yesterday's big Supreme Court decision.
00:00:39.000 And if you want the full breakdown of the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship case, you should listen to the hour and a half breakdown on yesterday's show.
00:00:47.000 I read all of the judicial decisions as they came in.
00:00:49.000 It was like 300 pages, read them in about 45 minutes, and gave you the full breakdown.
00:00:52.000 So check out yesterday's show.
00:00:54.000 But here is the actual finding in a 6 3 decision that's really kind of 5 4 because Justice Kavanaugh had some quibbles with the majority.
00:01:02.000 Basically, the finding is this the citizenship clause of the Constitution's 14th Amendment says, quote, All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
00:01:17.000 The question in the case was what does subject to the jurisdiction thereof mean?
00:01:21.000 Is it a superfluous clause, meaning if you're born in the U.S., you're automatically a citizen, or does it mean something different?
00:01:27.000 Well, the court found that basically it was kind of superfluous.
00:01:30.000 You are a citizen if you're born in the United States, unless you're the kid of a foreign ambassador or something.
00:01:36.000 And the majority said that that was rooted in a British citizenship idea called Jusoli, law of the soil.
00:01:43.000 Which goes all the way back to pre revolutionary days.
00:01:46.000 The Supreme Court essentially found that aside from a brief period after the passage of the 14th Amendment, when Congress and the courts seemed to say that you had to have what's called domicile, meaning America had to be your home in order to be a citizen, jus soli was the actual rule.
00:01:58.000 There were a bunch of dissents.
00:02:00.000 They were led by Justices Thomas and Alito, and they said that you actually had to have domicile in the U.S.
00:02:06.000 It's not just enough to be born here.
00:02:08.000 You and your parents couldn't owe allegiance to a foreign power or be governed by the law of a foreign power. 0.67
00:02:13.000 So if you are a Chinese citizen and you temporarily come here for five minutes and you drop a baby, The baby isn't an American citizen because you actually have allegiance to the government of China and you are subject to the laws of China. 0.53
00:02:25.000 By the way, we should note that everyone except for Thomas basically agreed that even if you were a child of an illegal immigrant, you could theoretically still be a citizen.
00:02:35.000 Thomas was the only one who sort of disagreed on that proposal.
00:02:38.000 With that said, the majority is clearly wrong.
00:02:41.000 Clearly wrong.
00:02:43.000 And there's been a long line of scholarship on all of this, and the majority decision is twisting the history, I believe.
00:02:51.000 And there's some people who think this is kind of a close call legally.
00:02:53.000 I actually don't think it's a close call legally.
00:02:56.000 When the Supreme Court says that there's basically nothing you can do about the 4.6 million illegal immigrant born in the USA children who are currently here, that's a problem.
00:03:05.000 And it's not constitutionally correct.
00:03:08.000 Given political considerations, what it actually means is that you probably can't do anything about their parents either.
00:03:13.000 That's theoretically another 4.2 million people.
00:03:15.000 So you're talking about 9 million people who you can't do anything about.
00:03:19.000 Now, again, we should know that those kids who were born in the US.
00:03:23.000 For the last 140 years under American policy, likely would have been considered citizens anyway.
00:03:28.000 So you're really talking about their parents who are now being given sort of expedited citizenship or certainly immunity from deportment because of their kids.
00:03:39.000 And this is an increasing problem, obviously.
00:03:42.000 Pew did a study of American births in 2023 and it found that almost one in 10 births in the United States was to an illegal immigrant mother.
00:03:51.000 It's about 320,000 babies every year.
00:03:54.000 And if the court had ruled the other way, about 260,000 of those babies would not have qualified for birthright citizenship.
00:04:02.000 The number of illegal immigrants more than tripled, of course, between 1990 and 2007.
00:04:09.000 And the number of births also tripled from about 120,000 in 1990 to a peak of about 380,000 in 2006.
00:04:17.000 So obviously, this is a major decision and has a major impact.
00:04:20.000 President Trump was very upset about it yesterday, as he has a right to be.
00:04:23.000 He put out a truth saying, I would like to congratulate President Xi and the great country of China.
00:04:27.000 On their massive birthright citizenship win. 0.84
00:04:30.000 And the idea here is that China is engaging in birth tourism, which, of course, is true. 1.00
00:04:34.000 They are doing that. 1.00
00:04:35.000 Words are Tom Homan went off on the court's decision yesterday.
00:04:40.000 But on the national security issue, let's just play that out, Tom, right? 0.99
00:04:43.000 You've got these Chinese birth tourism centers. 0.86
00:04:46.000 A kid could be born here, taken back to China, raised under the Chinese Communist Party with that education system, and then have American citizenship to come back with those beliefs and run for the highest offices in the land and have power here in America. 0.57
00:05:01.000 Is that right? 0.56
00:05:02.000 That's absolutely right.
00:05:04.000 I think it's one of the biggest.
00:05:05.000 National security issues we're facing right now.
00:05:08.000 Under the Biden administration, the open border was a huge national security issue, but this year is equally important.
00:05:13.000 That's why I was very disappointed in Say's decision.
00:05:16.000 And that's why I agree with President Trump.
00:05:18.000 Congress needs to get on this right away.
00:05:22.000 Speaker Mike Johnson said yesterday there's no question that birthright citizenship has been grossly abused over time.
00:05:28.000 I do think that this has been grossly abused in recent years, okay?
00:05:34.000 And that is the case that was being made by the plaintiffs in the case.
00:05:40.000 We're very sympathetic to that because it is a serious problem.
00:05:44.000 We have, you know, it's become a tourism, birthing tourism, they call it, you know, a trend where people would just come and you just come onto the soil and have your child and then they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else.
00:05:57.000 It's been abused.
00:06:00.000 Now, Democrats, of course, were extremely excited about the decision because their goal is, in fact, birth tourism.
00:06:05.000 It is, in fact, dropping babies across the American border in order to create.
00:06:11.000 Demographic change in the United States.
00:06:12.000 Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, was very enthusiastic yesterday.
00:06:17.000 It was one of our nation's clearest declarations that citizenship is not determined by race, ancestry, or where you come from.
00:06:24.000 For generations, the promise has affirmed something bigger than legal status.
00:06:29.000 It has affirmed that every child born here belongs here.
00:06:33.000 Our city joined a coalition of 106 jurisdictions across 26 states in speaking out against the administration's baseless attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship.
00:06:45.000 Today's decision allows our residents to continue to live, work, and contribute to the fabric of our city without fear of losing their most fundamental right.
00:06:54.000 We are proud to have stood in defense of the health, safety, and dignity of our communities.
00:06:59.000 No family should have to wonder whether their child's place in this country can be taken away.
00:07:06.000 Okay.
00:07:07.000 Hassan Piker, who, of course, despises the United States and loves all of America's enemies, he put out a tweet saying, America remains America.
00:07:16.000 This would have fundamentally changed the country for the worse.
00:07:17.000 Again.
00:07:18.000 He is a beneficiary of birthright citizenship because he was born in America and then he grew up in Turkey and owed his allegiance to Turkey, presumably. 0.76
00:07:27.000 And then he came back to the United States later in life and is here to undermine us.
00:07:33.000 He says this would have fundamentally changed the country for the worse and ushered in an era where Trump could change 100 year established constitutional precedent by executive order in ways that would destroy citizenship.
00:07:41.000 This was our modern Nuremberg race laws moment.
00:07:44.000 No, it certainly was not. 1.00
00:07:45.000 That is really, really stupid. 0.99
00:07:47.000 But of course, what else do you expect from the Cartier communist who spent. 1.00
00:07:51.000 Most of his early formative years in Turkey.
00:07:55.000 Okay, so listen, I get it.
00:07:57.000 I get everybody who's depressed about this decision.
00:07:59.000 I get it.
00:08:01.000 I even largely agree on an emotional level.
00:08:04.000 It seems like yet another massive roadblock to the enforcement of our border, and it definitely is.
00:08:08.000 But it's not the end of the story.
00:08:10.000 In fact, it's not even the beginning of the end of the story.
00:08:13.000 In order to understand what we can do and should do, we have to understand what went wrong with immigration in the United States.
00:08:19.000 And the answer primarily is not Supreme Court decisions, it really is not.
00:08:22.000 Wong Kim Ark in 1898, or even the Supreme Court's decision yesterday.
00:08:27.000 What went wrong with immigration in the United States is the elected branches of government. 0.53
00:08:31.000 It is legislative and executive policy. 0.91
00:08:34.000 Over the course of decades, our legislators and our presidents let in tens of millions of people who should not be in the country. 0.98
00:08:42.000 That needs to stop. 0.91
00:08:43.000 And some of it needs to reverse.
00:08:45.000 In a second, we'll get to the history of American immigration policy and where it all broke down, where it all fell apart.
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00:09:56.000 So let's start with a question.
00:09:57.000 If we want to understand America's immigration policy, where exactly do you think America's immigration policy broke?
00:10:02.000 So, this is a chart 1850 on showing the number of immigrants and their share of the U.S. total population.
00:10:10.000 So, as you can see, the percentage of immigrants in the United States, percentage of immigrants is a percentage of the total U.S. population from 1850 to essentially 1930 was well north of 10%, like quite high.
00:10:26.000 Very few people think about immigration in that period as breaking America.
00:10:30.000 It obviously created significant social problems.
00:10:33.000 I mean, watch Gangs of New York, which is largely about immigration problems.
00:10:37.000 But nobody tends to think of that period in American life between 1850 and 1930 as a time that wrecked America, what America was.
00:10:45.000 And then, of course, the share of immigrants as a percentage of the U.S. population radically dropped between 1930 and essentially 1970.
00:10:53.000 And then it spiked again.
00:10:56.000 So if you look at the immigrant share of the U.S. population, the answer is about 9.7% in 1850 of the American population was immigrant.
00:11:06.000 In 1890, it was all the way up at almost 15%.
00:11:09.000 And again, people don't tend to think of this as like, A bad time for America because of immigration.
00:11:13.000 Yes, there were social concerns, but overall, in retrospect, we don't see this as a time when America was, quote unquote, being hollowed out.
00:11:21.000 And then from 1930 on, that percentage declined radically from well north of 10% to down to 4.7% in 1970.
00:11:34.000 And now it has spiked up again to about 14% as of 2022.
00:11:40.000 So, what exactly changed?
00:11:41.000 Because, again, we tend to think of immigration as a massive problem now.
00:11:44.000 We don't tend to think of immigration as a massive problem in say 1900 when the percentage was about the same.
00:11:50.000 So what exactly happened?
00:11:52.000 Okay.
00:11:52.000 So we need a quick history lesson here on the nature of American immigration.
00:11:55.000 What changed is the nature of American immigration, not the sheer number, the nature.
00:12:00.000 Okay.
00:12:00.000 So I'm going to show you a series of charts showing the origin of where these immigrants were coming from and what changed over time.
00:12:07.000 So remember America is a land of people who came to settle, right?
00:12:13.000 They came to settle unsettled wilderness.
00:12:15.000 And they came from Europe in large measure.
00:12:17.000 And there were no welfare programs.
00:12:18.000 They didn't come here to take advantage of existent welfare programs.
00:12:21.000 Did not move from a country where they had no welfare to a country with welfare.
00:12:27.000 They didn't move, in many cases, from a richer country to a richer country.
00:12:32.000 In many cases, they were moving from a richer country to a poorer country.
00:12:38.000 I mean, if you were moving from the UK to the United States in 1850, in some cases, you were moving from a richer area to a poorer area, like the Utah Terrier or the Oregon Territory.
00:12:48.000 So in 1850, the top five foreign born populations were Ireland, Germany, the UK, Canada, and France, right? 0.51
00:12:56.000 All European.
00:12:58.000 And as you can see, the East Coast was largely Irish population.
00:13:01.000 The Midwest was German.
00:13:04.000 And then if you move down over to the West, the Northwest was British, UK, Scottish, presumably.
00:13:12.000 And then the Southwest was Mexican because that territory had only recently been integrated into the United States.
00:13:21.000 Okay, move forward to 1860.
00:13:24.000 And you can see, sorry, move forward to 1880.
00:13:27.000 And you can see.
00:13:28.000 That the pattern remains the same, except for massive Chinese immigration onto the West Coast.
00:13:34.000 But even that massive Chinese immigration onto the West Coast was not top five in terms of foreign born population.
00:13:39.000 So, once again, in 1880, when you had a very serious percentage of Americans who were immigrants, by 1880, you were talking well into the double digits.
00:13:46.000 The top five foreign born populations were Germany, Ireland, UK, Canada, and Sweden.
00:13:53.000 Right?
00:13:54.000 So, move forward again.
00:13:56.000 Now, 1910.
00:13:58.000 Okay, so you can see in 1910.
00:14:01.000 The top five foreign born populations are now Germany, Russia, Ireland, Italy, and the UK.
00:14:06.000 So, Italy and Russia have been added to this chart.
00:14:08.000 Russian immigrants, a large number of those are Jewish immigrants coming from Russia.
00:14:14.000 Okay, but as you can see, still European immigrants, including in Pennsylvania, Austria was actually the number one source of immigrants.
00:14:24.000 So, it's largely European immigrants, again, except for the Southwest, like New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas, all of which.
00:14:33.000 Mexican immigration is still the number one source of immigration.
00:14:36.000 Okay, now check this out.
00:14:37.000 Move forward to 1990.
00:14:39.000 Things have shifted quite a bit. 0.93
00:14:42.000 It turns out that number one with a bullet is Mexico. 0.82
00:14:46.000 Huge, huge percentage of immigrants are now coming from Mexico.
00:14:52.000 4.26 million immigrants in 1990 are from Mexico.
00:14:57.000 The next highest number is 0.91 to 910,000 people from the Philippines.
00:15:02.000 You may notice that neither of those countries is European.
00:15:05.000 740,000 from Canada, 740,000 from Cuba, right?
00:15:09.000 This is the Cuban migration into Florida that's happening.
00:15:14.000 And then Germany clocking in at a very low number five.
00:15:17.000 So the source of the immigration has radically shifted.
00:15:20.000 And now move forward to 2022.
00:15:24.000 And what you can see is that the entire country is blanketed with immigrants from India, China, Philippines, El Salvador, and Mexico.
00:15:34.000 In 2022, Top five foreign born populations by country of origin 10.6 million immigrants from Mexico, 2.83 million immigrants from India, 2.23 million from China, 2.01 from the Philippines, and 1.42 from El Salvador.
00:15:51.000 So, again, that is a giant shift in the nature of the places from which people are coming.
00:15:57.000 Because to pretend that gigantic numbers of Mexican immigrants is going to be the same as gigantic numbers of, say, German, Irish, or British immigrants, that's silly. 0.55
00:16:08.000 Same thing for India, same thing for China.
00:16:10.000 And that is not a case against any individual immigrant.
00:16:12.000 It is just a fact. 0.99
00:16:13.000 When you import large numbers of people from cultures that don't cohere as well to the core culture of the United States, which is an Anglo Protestant culture from the beginning, then it's going to be harder to integrate those people. 0.99
00:16:25.000 And when you add on top of that, the fact that from the very beginning, our immigration programs were rooted in the idea there was no welfare. 0.98
00:16:33.000 You came here, and that was a self selecting group.
00:16:35.000 You came here for the adventure.
00:16:37.000 You came here because you wanted a better life, not because you wanted welfare benefits.
00:16:42.000 And once you add welfare benefits on top, the kinds of people who are coming here change.
00:16:47.000 I mean, this is the difference between you open a Michelin star bakery, your clientele is going to be a certain type of person.
00:16:55.000 And then if you open a donut shop and you put in the window free donuts, that's going to be a different type of person who shows up to the donut shop.
00:17:02.000 Not quite the same thing.
00:17:04.000 We're going to get to the history of immigration in a second, see where we went wrong.
00:17:08.000 It's really important to determine how we get things back on track.
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00:18:18.000 And again, if you look at the history, Of American immigration, you can see why these sort of dips happened, right?
00:18:25.000 Why there was a gigantic wave of immigration, then a dip.
00:18:28.000 The dips happened because of congressional action.
00:18:30.000 It is not as though Congress has not acted before.
00:18:32.000 In 1882, Congress passed what was called the Chinese Exclusion Act.
00:18:36.000 Again, if you go back to that 1880 chart for a second, what you can see in the 1880 chart that you did not see in any prior chart is the entire West Coast, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho.
00:18:49.000 The number one source of immigration was China.
00:18:52.000 And this created concerns in Congress.
00:18:53.000 So in 1882, they passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which actually barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States for 10 years and then was later extended and it barred Chinese immigrants from naturalization entirely.
00:19:04.000 And then, thanks to the incredible uptick in immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, again, it's funny because we tend to flatten all sources of immigration.
00:19:14.000 Go to that chart in 1910.
00:19:15.000 And what you see in that chart in 1910 is a radical uptick in the number of, for example, Italian immigrants.
00:19:24.000 Ireland, Italy, and Russia.
00:19:26.000 These were then considered, these sort of bizarre sources of new populations.
00:19:31.000 And so the Immigration Act of 1917 was passed.
00:19:35.000 And it created a barred zone extending from the Middle East to Southeast Asia from which no immigrants were permitted and instituted literacy tests for people who were coming into the country.
00:19:43.000 In 1921, there was the Emergency Quota Act, which was the first federal law to set numerical limits on immigration. 0.65
00:19:50.000 And basically, the goal was to keep people coming at very low levels from countries we had already allowed into the country.
00:19:57.000 So, a lot of British, a lot of Irish, a lot of Germans, a lot of Italians, et cetera.
00:20:02.000 And then in 1924, the National Origins Act, the Immigration Act, tightened it still further and intentionally barred immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe and banned virtually all immigration from Asia.
00:20:15.000 And so you see a giant dive in the percentage of immigrants as a percentage of the American population between then and essentially 1965.
00:20:21.000 And then something seminal happens the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.
00:20:26.000 And this act radically changes the nature of immigration in the United States. 0.67
00:20:29.000 It's why you go from a bunch of European immigrants.
00:20:32.000 To a bunch of immigrants from places like El Salvador, Mexico, China, Philippines, and all of the rest.
00:20:41.000 The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which was pushed forward by Senator Ted Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, it repealed the quota system entirely.
00:20:51.000 So that meant a radical uptick of immigrants from Asia and Africa and Latin America and South America.
00:20:57.000 It had a no discrimination clause that said no person could be discriminated against in the issuance of any visa because of race, sex, nationality, place of birth, or residence.
00:21:07.000 Okay, before there were kind of two types of visas permanent visas and temporary visas.
00:21:11.000 We had limits on temporary visas too.
00:21:14.000 All those go away, essentially, under the 65 Immigration and Nationality Act.
00:21:20.000 It also created a seven tier preference system designed to reunify families of U.S. citizens and legal residents.
00:21:28.000 This created massive illegal immigration because there was a cap that was placed on Western Hemisphere immigration, but there was no guest worker program.
00:21:36.000 So instead, people just started crossing the border en masse and just staying. 0.67
00:21:41.000 Okay, add on top of this gigantic welfare systems that were created by LBJ's Great Society programs and the accessibility of those welfare systems to illegal immigrants. 0.86
00:21:52.000 And again, now you have the free donut shop. 0.97
00:21:55.000 You have people who are coming across the border because the benefits here are great.
00:21:57.000 You'll get a better job, but not just a better job, you also will have access to American systems.
00:22:03.000 There are some Supreme Court decisions.
00:22:04.000 You want to talk about Supreme Court decisions that actually mattered when it comes to immigration?
00:22:08.000 One that was huge was Plyler versus Doe in 1982.
00:22:12.000 That was a 5 4 ruling that states Texas had a law.
00:22:15.000 It said that if you are an illegal immigrant child, you could not access free public K 12 education in Texas.
00:22:21.000 And the court ruled that that violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
00:22:25.000 So now you come across the border and you immediately get to enroll your children in a public school, in an American public school.
00:22:34.000 There were also rulings like Graham versus Richardson in 1971, which struck down state statutes restricting welfare benefits solely to U.S. citizens or long term lawful residents.
00:22:44.000 So if you came in and you were a short term, Visa holder, you were here for a year, you could then get on welfare.
00:22:52.000 Congress also acted in order to ensure, on a humanitarian basis, that basically illegal immigrants could take advantage of our medical systems. 0.78
00:23:01.000 So Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1986 the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. 0.98
00:23:07.000 And you understand why, because basically the idea was you don't want somebody walking into the ER who's an illegal immigrant bleeding out from a bullet wound, and there's no obligation to take care of them. 0.56
00:23:15.000 But the unintended consequences of the law are pretty significant. 0.98
00:23:18.000 The EMTALA requires hospitals with Medicare participating emergency rooms to provide a medical screening examination and necessary stabilizing treatment to everyone, regardless of citizenship, immigration status, or ability to pay. 0.78
00:23:33.000 So, want to know why illegal immigrants now take up large shares of emergency rooms in places like California? 1.00
00:23:38.000 That would be the reason. 0.95
00:23:39.000 And there are a bunch of other laws that were then interpreted to prohibit healthcare facilities from denying medical care on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, or handicap.
00:23:48.000 Now, theoretically, those healthcare facilities could discriminate on the basis of legal versus illegal status.
00:23:54.000 But in reality, they just don't because they're afraid of discrimination lawsuits.
00:23:59.000 And in the end, they figure the government will fill in the gaps or other patients will fill in the gaps.
00:24:03.000 So now you have a system where people illegally immigrate to the United States.
00:24:08.000 They illegally immigrate, they have access to our emergency medical care, which increasingly just means medical care, more broadly speaking.
00:24:14.000 They have access to state welfare systems in many cases, like California.
00:24:19.000 They have access to public school systems.
00:24:21.000 So, literally, tens of thousands of dollars in benefits.
00:24:25.000 And we shifted the entire cap system and quota system on a national origin basis. 0.63
00:24:32.000 And so, what you have is a different group of people who want to get into the United States. 0.52
00:24:35.000 And I don't blame them.
00:24:35.000 I mean, hell, everyone wants to get in.
00:24:38.000 It's a great place, the United States, but you will draw a different type of clientele depending on whether you're the free donut shop or the Michelin star place.
00:24:47.000 It's two different things.
00:24:48.000 I mean, by the way, you'll draw a different type of clientele to a come in and bake your own donuts.
00:24:55.000 With your own materials that you buy and free donuts, which is actually a better comparison.
00:25:00.000 Because in 1900, that was the case.
00:25:02.000 Come here, government isn't going to help you.
00:25:04.000 We're just going to protect our private property rights.
00:25:07.000 And you come here and you build. 0.85
00:25:09.000 This is why assimilation happened at a very, very high level in the United States in the early 20th century and before.
00:25:15.000 When my great, great grandparents got here in the very early 20th century, they spoke Yiddish.
00:25:21.000 They didn't speak English.
00:25:22.000 And then very quickly, their kids learned to speak English.
00:25:25.000 And then they integrated into the economy.
00:25:26.000 And then, generation after generation, they lived better lives because they assimilated to Anglo American traditions.
00:25:33.000 But when you change the math, when you pay people, when you give them free monies, they don't have to integrate, they don't have to assimilate by nature.
00:25:39.000 And you change the system, pretending that all cultures are equally capable of mass migration to the United States, you end up with the current system of immigration in the United States.
00:25:52.000 There are other judicial rulings, by the way, that made it nearly impossible to enforce immigration law if a Democrat was in office.
00:25:57.000 In 2012, for example, famous case, Arizona versus United States.
00:26:02.000 That's when the Supreme Court ruled that federal law prevented essentially Arizona law from helping to enforce federal statutes.
00:26:08.000 So the rule now on the federal level is that states can ignore federal law or refuse to enforce federal law by calling themselves sanctuary states or cities.
00:26:19.000 But if you want to enforce federal law, you can't do that.
00:26:23.000 The court nullified Arizona laws in 2012 that, for example, made it a crime for non citizens to carry federal registration documents.
00:26:31.000 Or made it a crime for unauthorized immigrants to work.
00:26:35.000 Okay, so what does all this mean?
00:26:37.000 You'll notice that in this entire litany of immigration history, the vast majority of this action is either bad congressional action, bad presidential action, like Joe Biden opening the border widely, refusing to enforce immigration law, or judicial actions that are likely reversible at the Supreme Court level today.
00:26:57.000 So there are a lot of solutions still on the table. 0.64
00:26:59.000 The black pilling, in other words, is actually counterproductive.
00:27:02.000 So, what is the solution?
00:27:03.000 Let's talk about things we can actually do.
00:27:05.000 One, you can enforce immigration law.
00:27:07.000 Two, you can get rid of the possibility of government dependency for illegal immigrants.
00:27:12.000 Those are the two things get rid of the welfare incentives and enforce immigration law. 0.68
00:27:16.000 Those are the two things.
00:27:17.000 The first thing, enforcing the law, is the job of the executive branch.
00:27:21.000 The second, getting rid of the welfare benefits, is the job of the legislature and also the judiciary.
00:27:26.000 So, start with enforcing immigration laws.
00:27:29.000 You don't need an invalidation of birthright citizenship in order to enforce immigration laws.
00:27:36.000 It is illegal to illegally immigrate.
00:27:38.000 You can deport people before they have babies. 0.83
00:27:41.000 Temporary visas need to be widely curbed.
00:27:45.000 About 50% of all illegal immigrants are not just crossing the southern border.
00:27:48.000 They are coming on temporary visas and then overstaying.
00:27:52.000 So, our enforcement mechanisms on temporary visas need to be significantly stronger.
00:27:58.000 About 1 million legal immigrants per year get in using work visas or family sponsored visas.
00:28:04.000 So, go back to those numbers for a second, where we are talking about the percentage of the American people who are immigrants now.
00:28:11.000 If you look at that original chart, the one that shows sort of the line that The orange line and the blue line.
00:28:20.000 What you see is, again, between 1970 and 2022 and 2024, a large spike in the percentage of American population that is immigrant.
00:28:33.000 Basically, if you just got rid of the illegal immigration, forget about legal immigration for a second, which you can also curb, but talk about just illegal immigration.
00:28:41.000 If you had curbed that, that percentage would have stabilized in about 1990.
00:28:46.000 And right now, you'd be in the 8% to 9% range, not in the 15% plus range.
00:28:52.000 So, if your borders are, there would be a bunch of things you would do.
00:28:57.000 You would actually, you know, push for, yes, mass deportation of people who are involved in anything criminal.
00:29:01.000 And that would include things like carrying around fake ID, using false social security numbers. 0.81
00:29:06.000 By the way, a huge majority of illegal immigrants have to do these things. 0.84
00:29:10.000 And when it comes to visa tests for permanent visas, we would have to more carefully screen. 0.77
00:29:18.000 You'd have to share our values or come from a system that shares our values, wish to assimilate into American values on an individual level, be able to prove the first two. 0.83
00:29:26.000 So, if you're coming from a place where we can't prove it, you shouldn't get in.
00:29:29.000 And you have to show that you're going to be of net economic benefit to the United States.
00:29:31.000 You're not going to be a welfare draw.
00:29:35.000 And when it comes to temporary visas, we would boot people as soon as the temporary visa has expired.
00:29:39.000 We'd actually follow up, which we don't do right now.
00:29:41.000 And of course, we would shut the border.
00:29:43.000 We would start deporting people who are in the country illegally and are welfare dependent and are engaged in illegal activity of any sort.
00:29:50.000 Again, you can start with the most egregious criminality and work your way down.
00:29:53.000 One of the things you keep hearing is well, the states aren't participating with the federal government in identifying illegal immigrants for deportation. 0.92
00:29:59.000 Well, cool story.
00:30:01.000 You can actually, like the federal government, are you telling me the federal government has no capacity to look up the immigration status of the some tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in state prisons right now?
00:30:12.000 They can't look up the name and the immigration status?
00:30:15.000 Is that impossible?
00:30:16.000 I feel like you could design an AI to do that and it would take about an hour.
00:30:20.000 The idea that you require the state governments to participate with you is not true.
00:30:26.000 And you could actually just look at criminal pleas and then immigration status and you could just go in and enforce the law.
00:30:31.000 It's all public record. 0.53
00:30:33.000 And of course, we can crack down on birth tourism, which was the key issue with regard to birthright citizenship here.
00:30:39.000 We can criminalize people who come to the U.S. through birth tourism networks.
00:30:43.000 In fact, the DOJ put out a memo on prosecution of birth tourism schemes literally yesterday.
00:30:50.000 We can change our travel regulations to prevent people from abroad traveling to the United States in the late stages of pregnancy.
00:30:55.000 So if you're coming in six months pregnant, we should not give you a four month visa. 1.00
00:30:58.000 We should give you a one month visa and then kick your ass out. 1.00
00:31:02.000 These are things that we can do. 1.00
00:31:03.000 None of this requires congressional action.
00:31:06.000 It's all encoded in American law already.
00:31:10.000 And then there's welfare.
00:31:11.000 If you're going to come in and be on welfare, you should not be able to come in.
00:31:14.000 And if you're on welfare, you should be in line to get the boot.
00:31:17.000 Again, we actually do not require congressional action here.
00:31:20.000 And on the judiciary, in the level of the judiciary, we can actually get some action here.
00:31:25.000 This court would likely overrule Plyler versus Doe.
00:31:30.000 You could probably get a majority on this court, everybody, probably not including Roberts, to rule. 0.81
00:31:37.000 That you do not have a 14th Amendment constitutional right to access public education as an illegal immigrant. 0.77
00:31:43.000 That would be a major, major thing. 0.91
00:31:45.000 It would.
00:31:47.000 And Congress could still do things with regard to birthright citizenship.
00:31:50.000 Justice Kavanaugh noted in his concurrence/dissent: he wrote, quote, Congress could, consistent with the 14th Amendment, amend the law or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country.
00:32:07.000 But Congress has not yet done so.
00:32:09.000 So that's an open question, right?
00:32:10.000 Trump went after birthright citizenship via executive order.
00:32:13.000 Kavanaugh says, no, no, no, there's legislation on the books.
00:32:16.000 That doesn't allow that, but you could have legislation that overrules it.
00:32:20.000 So maybe we should try that.
00:32:22.000 Now, listen, I know there are systemic obstacles to things like congressional action, the filibuster.
00:32:26.000 And I get the argument that's made by a lot of folks dump the filibuster, otherwise, nothing will ever get done.
00:32:31.000 As I've said before, I think that's a bad idea because once you break that glass, you cannot unbreak that glass.
00:32:35.000 And the same dumping of the filibuster that will allow you to ram through harsher immigration policy will allow Democrats to ram through an open border.
00:32:44.000 But bottom line is this yes, the birthright citizenship decision is a really, really bad Supreme Court decision.
00:32:52.000 But if you are concerned about the radical shift in immigration in the country, the worst thing you can do is black pill because that removes responsibility from the executive and the legislature.
00:33:02.000 It basically says, ah, the judiciary blew it for us.
00:33:04.000 Nothing we can do. 0.88
00:33:05.000 I guess we're screwed now.
00:33:06.000 That's not helpful.
00:33:08.000 Again, I get that you think the legislature is not going to do anything, but the executive still can.
00:33:11.000 And maybe the states can if the Supreme Court overrules, for example, Lyler.
00:33:17.000 And again, here's the most important thing the most important thing the Supreme Court's ruling yesterday, which is a bad, wrong ruling.
00:33:23.000 Did not actually change the existing state of the law yesterday. 0.94
00:33:28.000 They simply didn't do the right thing, which sucks.
00:33:30.000 It's a blown opportunity.
00:33:31.000 But the answers are still there.
00:33:33.000 The president himself says this, by the way.
00:33:35.000 Here he was on Truth Yesterday The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, which is too bad for our country.
00:33:40.000 But we can easily make it up in Congress through legislation with the support of the president that has now been determined during this process.
00:33:46.000 No long and unwieldy constitutional amendment is necessary.
00:33:49.000 Congress should start today to work on ending expensive and unfair to our country birthright citizenship.
00:33:53.000 They will have my complete and total support.
00:33:56.000 And he's not wrong about this.
00:33:58.000 And here is the thing for conservatives and Republicans immigration remains a winning issue because it is not that Democrats are so in love with the concept of birthright citizenship, it is that they are in favor of open borders.
00:34:12.000 If they were just making the case that probably Amy Coney Barrett or Justice Roberts might make that birthright citizenship is the law of the land, but Congress can do something and congressional and executive policy can do something, but that's not what Democrats are doing.
00:34:27.000 Democrats are celebrating because they want birthright citizenship to be the basis of mass migration.
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