00:00I think anybody who looks at this, oh dear, what do they rule?
00:03This is children born in the United States, parents unlawfully or temporarily present are subject to the jurisdiction of the
00:09United States and are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause.
00:14What's your reaction to that?
00:19Well, I need to read the opinion, okay? But obviously that's, I mean, you could say that's a textualist, originalist
00:25view.
00:28However, I do think that this has been grossly abused in recent years, okay?
00:34And that is the case that was being made by the plaintiffs in the case.
00:39And we're very sympathetic to that because it is a serious problem.
00:43We have, you know, it's become a tourism, birthing tourism, they call it, you know, a trend where people will
00:50just come and you just come onto the soil and have your child.
00:53And then they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else.
00:57It's been abused.
00:59It's one of those things that was intended to serve a noble, important purpose and has been thwarted and overused
01:07and abused.
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