Althouse: "I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!"

June 30, 2026

"I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!"

Signed, "President DONALD J. TRUMP."

On Truth Social.

66 comments:

mccullough said...: Stop issuing visas to Chinese nationals.; 6/30/26, 3:34 PM
mezzrow said...: He's not wrong.; 6/30/26, 3:38 PM
Dave Begley said...: What is completely inexplicable to me is that Roberts and ACB could rule the way they did knowing all about the Chinese birth tourism and that there are about 1,000,000 Chinese who are US "citizens."

Didn't they read the dissents?; 6/30/26, 3:42 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: Strange that a nation would let other counties have a say in who gets to be a citizen of said nation.; 6/30/26, 3:42 PM
mccullough said...: Begley,

It’s totally understandable. Roberts & ACB have high opinions of themselves. ACB is even more arrogant than Roberts.

Don’t you know people like this? Being on the Supreme Court is a big fucking deal for them.; 6/30/26, 3:46 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: “周雖舊邦, 舞弊維新”

“Ancient though Zhou may be, its fraud is forever fresh.”

- King WOO, "Greater Odes, Classic of Poetry", (allegedly); 6/30/26, 3:48 PM
Gusty Winds said...: Perfect. An absolute truth. Our "Supreme Court" sold us out.; 6/30/26, 3:50 PM
Gusty Winds said...: We are so fucking stupid. China doesn't have birthright citizenship for a good reason.; 6/30/26, 3:58 PM
Oh Yea said...: Time for Trump to display true leadership using his political capital to press through a constitutional amendment to address this issue.; 6/30/26, 4:02 PM
Iman said...: It could be that Roberts and ACB have fallen under the sway of teh 12th Mahdi.; 6/30/26, 4:06 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Absolutely. Trump needs to support Sen. Eric Schmidt's call issued today for such or he's not serious.; 6/30/26, 4:07 PM
Gusty Winds said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/30/26, 4:08 PM
tcrosse said...: What's the problem? Chinese women are doing a job liberated, empowered American women won't do.; 6/30/26, 4:08 PM
Gusty Winds said...: Roberts and ACB vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. Then, two years later, they codify all inclusive fucking birthright citizenship. The hatred of the rulings go hand in hand.

Watch Guam, Puerto Rico, and Blue States start to outlaw abortion for a decade or so.; 6/30/26, 4:13 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Every Chinese national in this country is a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE). When are people going to wake up and realize Lee Kuan Yew was right.; 6/30/26, 4:13 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: Time for Trump to display true leadership using his political capital to press through a constitutional amendment to address this issue.

his party won't even help him pass the SAVE act which is supported by about 80% of the population. This would be a waste of energy.; 6/30/26, 4:14 PM
Andre said...: As I understand it, it is illegal in China to hold dual citizenship. So how is Chinese anchor baby tourism a thing?; 6/30/26, 4:15 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Because like other nations that shall remain unnamed, *we allow it*.; 6/30/26, 4:16 PM
gspencer said...: Time to apply the Fertile Female Rule,

Any female over 11 and under 61 will not be given visas.; 6/30/26, 4:24 PM
gspencer said...: Rule also to apply to pregnant men.; 6/30/26, 4:25 PM
Gusty Winds said...: What we have learned from this most of all, is cute white women like ACB are insane too. Trump got tricked. He expected this from a fat ugly one like Kagan. But ACB is fuckable. She's the Catholic girl in the hot short skirt and saddle shoes. Mermaid. Siren singing a song.

Trump followed his little head over his big head per McConnel's recommendation. He thought her beauty would make her different from Kagan and Sotomayor. What I don't get is Cuban-American Judge Barbara Lagoa (who he passed on, but wouldn't have done this) is completly fuckable too.

Men make really stupid decisions based on subtleties of hotness.; 6/30/26, 4:26 PM
gspencer said...: When a huge percentage of the population wants the USA to go vamoose, getting a constitutional amendment through the works is simply impossible.

68% of Congress
&
38 states

That' is one a heavy lift.; 6/30/26, 4:30 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Would it be legal for Congress to pass a law saying the US Government cannot grant a visa or otherwise permit entry to a pregnant woman?; 6/30/26, 4:36 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: "Any female over 11 and under 61 will not be given visas."

Disagree. Disallow immigration to every foreigner *that's not* a fertile young woman between the ages of 18 and 30 and AWFULs will be clamoring for machine gun positions and alligators with laser beams on their heads along every quarter mile of the Rio Grande.

Not only would they wo/man the firing positions themselves, they'd take no pay.; 6/30/26, 4:40 PM
Peachy+2 said...: birth tourism is alive and well.

Congress can and should act.; 6/30/26, 4:50 PM
mccullough said...: How the fuck is the government going to verify if a foreign female visitor is pregnant?

The answer is to ban visas to China and yo step up deportation of female illlegals of fertility age; 6/30/26, 4:51 PM
lonejustice said...: No, the Birthright Citizenship Win is entirely due to Trump because of his appointments to the US Supreme Court. I remember the near orgasmic circle jerk by MAGA here when he made his appointments. They all shot their wad in premature ejaculation. Now they are having their remorse, like the junior high school kid masturbating to Playboy or Penthouse. Trump needs to own this. Good and hard.; 6/30/26, 4:54 PM
Gusty Winds said...: At his point, why would any American man marry an American white woman? She could be a closet ACB liberal who hates you.

Eastern European and Pacific Rim mail order bride prices are about to dump.; 6/30/26, 4:58 PM
Peachy+2 said...: I hear Jackson - (who barley passed the bar exam) her dissent opinion is incoherent.; 6/30/26, 5:03 PM
Mason G said...: "At his point, why would any American man marry an American white woman?"

I heard a white woman today say she was waiting to get a passport because she didn't want one with Trump's name on it anywhere.

Is that (the president's name on a passport) even a thing?; 6/30/26, 5:04 PM
Iman said...: If these justices with their majority opinion/decision wanted to totally devalue what it means to be an American citizen, what would they have done differently?; 6/30/26, 5:11 PM
Gusty Winds said...: Mason G said...Is that (the president's name on a passport) even a thing?

From Grok: "No, not on standard American passports. Regular U.S. passports (the ones most people receive when applying or renewing) do not have Donald Trump's name, image, or signature printed on them. The core design and security features remain unchanged."

You can opt for a 250th anniversary "Patriot Passport" with Trump included. But that's like custom vanity plate.

Only a liberal white woman would believe you actually have to wait it out. Lol. Over under 50/50 she's a teacher.; 6/30/26, 5:16 PM
Iman said...: lonejustus relives his sad and lonely adolescence @4:54pm…; 6/30/26, 5:16 PM
Jim at said...: I remember the near orgasmic circle jerk by MAGA here when he made his appointments.

You are so full of shit. There was a LOT of concern over the appointments of Kavanaugh and ACB. And rightfully so.; 6/30/26, 5:18 PM
Rocco said...: Ok, I think I have a solution to the issue of birthright citizenship; hear me out.

Congress passes a law (barring that, Trump issues an EO) that makes the spot beneath every tourist, every H1B visa holder, every illegal, every foreigner, etc, without permanent status automatically be a tiny mobile embassy that moves with them. Note: The US will retain access to embassy grounds to pursue criminal investigations, etc.

So if a foreign woman gives birth, it will automatically be on embassy grounds, hence foreign soil, and hence their child(ren) would not automatically be American citizens.; 6/30/26, 5:27 PM
Jim at said...: In fact there was so much concern about Kavanaugh that we hoped all the bullshit he went through during his confirmation might harden his resolve and turn him into a reliable, conservative vote. It didn't.

As for ACB? The consensus was holding out hope she wouldn't be as bad as Sandra Day O'Connor. Nobody was under the impression she was in any way a reliable, conservative vote.

You act like none of us remember these conversations. We do.; 6/30/26, 5:34 PM
Spiros Pappas said...: I think this decision must be read in the most narrow way possible so as not remove the very fundamental issue of birthright citizenship from democratic decision-making.

I think the Supreme Court will defer to Congress if it decides to narrow (or even broaden) the defnition of birth right citizenship.; 6/30/26, 5:39 PM
john mosby said...: Or CPS could show up at the hospital and immediately confiscate the new birthright citizen because her parents plan to take her back to the PRC, which would be completely counter to the child's interests.

Easy to do in red states. In blue states, Harmeet's Civil Rights Div lawyers could show up and immediately file motions to keep the kid from going back to the PRC.

That takes care of the birthright tourism. For illegals pushing out new citizens, take the kid away on the theory that life among illegals on the lam is counter to the child's interests.

Then send the kids to my Janissary Schools, previously proposed in this parish. Guess they would need a Nursery Division. CC, JSM; 6/30/26, 5:44 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: AI tell me that all natural born citizens are birthright citizenship
It's even requirements for eligibility to campaign for President; 6/30/26, 5:53 PM
Gusty Winds said...: You don't even have to invade the United States from the West Coast or the East coast (as we feared of Japan and Germany in WWII).

Now, you can just have your soldiers knock up a a million of your country's women, wait until the ninth or tenth month, and unload them in knee high to waste high water from the shore. Nobody will blow up a boat full of pregnant women.

The US helps them get on shore. Delivers the new US citizen babies and ... invasion successful.

I always wondered what would end the USA. Up util 2020 I had do idea it would be the courts. Now I know.; 6/30/26, 5:53 PM
Bob Boyd said...: "How the fuck is the government going to verify if a foreign female visitor is pregnant?

Piss test.; 6/30/26, 5:55 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: Rocco
Won't that confer Diplomatic Privileges?; 6/30/26, 5:57 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: That could make it easier to remove as person not grata; 6/30/26, 5:59 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: Custom can also check for turkey baster loaded; 6/30/26, 6:00 PM
Peachy+2 said...: oops- re Jackson's opinion - that is on the men in women's sports.; 6/30/26, 6:06 PM
Achilles said...: Dave Begley said...

What is completely inexplicable to me is that Roberts and ACB could rule the way they did knowing all about the Chinese birth tourism and that there are about 1,000,000 Chinese who are US "citizens."

Didn't they read the dissents?

Your problem is that you have not internalized that ACB and Roberts are traitors serving foreign masters and always have been.; 6/30/26, 6:33 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Stable genius amirite?; 6/30/26, 6:35 PM
Bob Boyd said...: The government doesn't have to verify anyone is pregnant. The applicant has to prove she's not.; 6/30/26, 6:41 PM
Mason G said...: Sundance at CTH has thoughts...

As a pragmatic and patriotic American I respectfully suggest and recommend the U.S. State Department immediately institute the “Roberts Requirement” following similar visa entry protocols previously used for COVID-19 tests prior to U.S. admittance.

The Roberts Requirement: Each female visa applicant must present a valid negative pregnancy test taken no longer than 10 days prior to travel to the United States.

The certified document, negative pregnancy test, together with all related visa approvals must be presented to Customs and Border Patrol at each port of entry. Failure disqualifies the traveler.

This is the same protocol as COVID-19, only using pregnancy status as the disqualifying health issue. It is a lawful regulation, born from a new standard established by the Supreme Court, that does not need congressional approval.

Make every overburdensome visa rule and travel permit regulation specifically attributable to John Roberts decision. Pre-screenings, pregnancy tests, supplemental bond requirements for 15-to 45-year-old females, shortened visa terms and much more.

No exclusions for diplomats, sports figures, foreign actors, employees, H1Bs, student entry or any other visa type – the works. Make the total visa entry system subject to a regulatory and compliance nightmare at a scale that is unheard of. That is the scale of the problem Roberts has created. Now blame John Roberts for it.

This ‘Roberts Requirement’ applies to all visa types.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/30/the-roberts-requirement-pregnancy-tests-for-u-s-travel-visas/#more-284873; 6/30/26, 6:42 PM
Bob Boyd said...: "The Roberts Requirement: Each female visa applicant must present a valid negative pregnancy test taken no longer than 10 days prior to travel to the United States."

Must be a supervised, observed sample and official US test at a US consulate. Or if that's not practical in their country of origin, they could agree to be held at holding facility until cleared by a test after arrival.

The SC would probably overturn this law saying it deprives an unborn baby of it's right under the 14th Amendment to be born in the USA.; 6/30/26, 6:54 PM
Dave Begley said...: I have thought for decades that the way Indians were treated for citizenship purposes totally undermines the majority decision today.

Indians were born on US soil, but weren’t US citizens until a statute was passed around 1920. Did Roberts even discuss that? I know Justice Thomas did.; 6/30/26, 6:55 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Frank J. Fleming
@IMAO_
·
3h
"The obvious solution is that if an illegal alien has kids in the U.S., you deport the parents and raise the kids in some sort of ultra-patriotic super-soldier program."; 6/30/26, 7:01 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The Supremes take one step forward; asylum seekers have to be in the US. One step back; Anchor Babies Aweigh!; 6/30/26, 7:06 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: Roberts blackmailed because of his family's sus adoptions?

With a few exceptions, Ireland requires residency and physical presence in Ireland for dual citizens to vote in Irish elections. Good luck with that here.; 6/30/26, 7:22 PM
Mason G said...: "Good luck with that here."

Do mail-in ballots postmarked on the other side of the International Date Line still count?; 6/30/26, 7:32 PM
n.n said...: Anchor [babies] aweigh and chain [migration] under the color of law.; 6/30/26, 7:39 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: Grok, regarding a baby born in the US to at least one Indian citizen parent -

"The child will automatically be a US citizen at birth, but will likely need to choose (or effectively lose Indian citizenship) around age 18 if they want to keep both options open initially."; 6/30/26, 7:51 PM
Balfegor said...: Honestly, birth tourism from China was one of the weakest fact patterns in the argument against birthright citizenship. They don't have a visa waiver for entry to the US, so every expecting mother shuttling in to California to procure an anchor baby had to apply to the US State Department for permission to enter the US, and was duly granted that permission.

Medium would be women who entered the US legally and with the express permission of the US government but were out of status (visa overstay, violation of visa terms, or other change in conditions) at the time they give birth.

And strongest would be against people who covertly infiltrate across the US border, evading border inspections and law enforcement, and subsequently give birth on US soil. This is the only one I thought the administration had a chance of winning on.

But all these fact patterns lost. Oh well.; 6/30/26, 8:13 PM
Mason G said...: DOJ to probe 'birth tourism' schemes in wake of Supreme Court ruling

In 2024, a husband-wife team of Michael Wei Yueh Liu and Jing Dong was convicted and each sentenced to 41 months in prison. They were accused of running a business called “USA Happy Baby” that charged Chinese clients tens of thousands of dollars to help give birth in the United States.

In 2022, Ibrahim Aksakal was convicted and sentenced to 27 months in prison for conspiring to health-care and wire fraud. Aksakal was accused of advertising a birth tourism scheme on Turkish-language social media pages. Aksakal was ordered to pay $1 million in restitution and forfeit nearly $400,000.

In 2020, Chao “Edwin” Chen was convicted and sentenced to 37 months in prison for opr operating a business called “You Win USA” with a 100-person team in China and the United States. The business served more than 500 customers and charged between $40,000 and $80,000 each, prosecutors said.

“As these examples make clear, birth tourism schemes exploit our immigration system and violate criminal law,” McDonald said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/30/birth-tourism-justice-department-supreme-court/90760996007/; 6/30/26, 8:18 PM
Clyde said...: He's not wrong.; 6/30/26, 8:31 PM
Left Bank of the Charles said...: Trump’s executive order doesn’t seem to have convinced any of the Justices, not even the dissenters, in its entirety. What a loser of a legal strategy.; 7/1/26, 12:33 AM
Rosalyn C. said...: No one could possibly have imagined that a pregnant woman could fly in, have a baby, and fly out back to China, no less. The 14th Amendment was written about 37 years before the first flight by the Wright Bros. Likewise they probably couldn't have imagined the US becoming a welfare state and that millions of people would shamelessly take advantage of that.
The language of the Amendment is ironclad regarding birthright citizenship. I wondered why it wasn't specifically written to apply to former slaves and their children. Apparently the reason birthright citizenship was written vaguely and future oriented was to prevent Southern states from denying citizenship to the children, or children of the children, etc., of former slaves at a future time.; 7/1/26, 1:23 AM
Tina Trent said...: Balfegor is right. The number of illegal immigrant Chinese and birth tourists having anchor babies here is extreme. And varied. As a Catholic, I hate to say this, but the weirdly charismatic ACB has little respect for national boundaries. She was a mistake. All blame goes to the RINO + leftitarian Federalist Society. Until our conservative elected officials understand that the Federalist Society is funded by the open-borders Koch Foundations, Trump's base will shatter. Ironically, the two sources of Chinese anchor babies are the illegal fleeing China and the progeny of the wealthy, ruling Commie/fascist class.; 7/1/26, 3:40 AM
tim maguire said...: Everybody’s upset with this decision because it’s impractical, but nobody has put forth an argument that it’s wrong. Because it isn’t. Every one of these decisions—the ones we like and the ones we don’t like—is constitutionally sound.

The reality is, birthright citizenship is not a big problem. Anchor babies are a problem, but not because of birthright citizenship. Chinese birth tourism is not as big a problem as people are making it out to be and there are less drastic solutions—like making it a felony to come to the US during the last trimester or to operate a business that caters to pregnant tourists.; 7/1/26, 5:12 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: A lot of people including lawyers I respect have put forth well articulated arguments that SCOTUS decision on birthright citizenship is wrong. More to the point Native Americans are pointing out that the 14th Amendment didn’t make them “American” and special legislation was written in the 20th century to provide a path to citizenship for NATIVE AMERICANS. That tends to undermine the idiotic notion that everyone saw this outcome as a slam dunk. When the going gets tough (political) Roberts punts every time. See Obamacare decision re not a tax.; 7/1/26, 6:57 AM
Kirk Parker said...: Turns out the Constitution IS a suicide pact after all.; 7/1/26, 7:43 AM