Birthright Citizenship & Immigration

The 14th amendment Section 1 of the United States constitution states “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. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the Privileges or Immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, our property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdictions the equal protection of the laws”.

As normal in the media, things are twisted into a way that sells. If we take the executive order as it is written, we will see that it is not directed at any children born in the United States legally. We would also see that the order is completely aimed at the illegal immigrants who walked across the border by the thousands in the Biden administration. It is written to prevent those who came here illegally from quickly having children and then claiming parental citizenship in order to take care of the children.

The executive order states two different situations where a person is no longer a U.S. citizen at birth:

• When the mother was unlawfully present in the U.S. and the father was neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident when the person was born.

• When the mother was in the U.S. in temporary status, such as a student visa, work visa, tourist visa or under the Visa Waiver Program, and the father was neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident when the person was born.

The executive order states that these provisions are only effective for people born 30 days or more after the date of the order; it would have only applied to children born beginning February 19, 2025 had it not been blocked by the US Supreme Court.

This order has nothing to do with the people who are here now, who were born and raised here, or who are prominent tax-paying members of our society today. 

I am a firm believer that we need to make sure our borders are CLOSED, just as you can not legally walk into Canada, Mexico or another other country in the world, you should not be able to walk into America. I am a firm believer that all of the criminals, thieves, murderers and rapist that were turned out of prisons in other countries, who walked across our borders during the Biden Administration, should be rounded up and sent back to the country of their citizenship where they belong. 

I also believe in finding and providing solutions. The last time we had a major change to our immigration system was in 1985 under the Reagan Administration. I believe we need to make sure every person that is in America under a work VISA, H2A Program, H1B Program, or any other permit which allows people to come to America and work or study  should have a Taxpayer Identificiation Number. Not a fake ID Number but a real TID where they must pay and file tax returns just like every American here working and keeping America moving. I believe that we are creating more and more jobs everyday as President Trump works hard to bring manufacturing back to the United States. But we have to have men and women to do those jobs as well as so many of the “bad” jobs. See, I can promise you that nobody wants to pick tomatoes in the field, nobody wants to pick up chickens in a poultry house, nobody wants to work at the food processing plant, and not many people desire to get in a muddy ditch and shovel dirt. Visa workers are doing those jobs that nobody else wants to do, and quite frankly we need them to keep doing those jobs in order to Make America and Alabama Great Again!!!

I believe the Social Security Office should be combined with Immigration Offices. We have Social Security Offices in every county or region in every State in America. Those offices have desks, telephones, computers, and staff. They need to become Taxpayer Identification Offices serving all of the people. I know it is extremely hard to go through all of the red tape for H2A and other programs. We need to streamline this process so people could apply to work in America, receive their VISA or other documents and report to the TID Office immediately, where they would be given a number and become taxpayers like the rest of us. I DID NOT SAY THIS WOULD PROVIDE CITIZENSHIP OR VOTING RIGHTS. There is a pathway in place for citizenship that millions of people have followed through the years.