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Birthplace Citizenship Is Incompatible With Mass Immigration

Under conditions of mass immigration, legal or illegal, birthplace citizenship means the destruction of the nation.

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A lot of people on the right are understandably upset about the Supreme Court’s decision this week upholding birthplace citizenship under the 14th Amendment. It’s easy to see why. All one has to do is read the scathing dissents by Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, which expose the flawed reasoning and intellectual dishonesty of the 5-4 majority — a majority that was clearly searching for a specific policy outcome and justifying it under the color of the Constitution.

But let me offer a cautious caveat to the black-pilling. The court’s decision wouldn’t be the catastrophe that it is if we hadn’t just lived through a Democrat administration that demonstrated what a dangerous weapon mass illegal immigration can be in the hands of left-wing ideologues who want to remake America.

There is a plausible world in which birthplace citizenship might be sound public policy. But that world is one in which immigration is restricted in ways that it hasn’t been for generations, and the border is sealed in ways it never has been before. In that scenario, granting citizenship to the native-born children of foreign nationals does a lot of the heavy lifting of assimilation. It gives immigrant families a stake in the nation, imposes obligations of service, and invites them to sink deep roots in American soil.

By contrast, under conditions of mass immigration, conferring........

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