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Congress Has Established That People Here Illegally Are Not Residents

The 1898 decision in Wong Kim Ark made “residency” and being “domiciled” the operative terms, and Congress has since made clear what they mean.

Button Gwinnett | April 24, 2026

You can read here about how the Supreme Court, in the seminal 1898 Wong Kim Ark decision, ruled on some aspects of birthright citizenship. The Court ignored the ratifiers’ intent for both the original Constitution and the 14th Amendment and instead focused on English common-law terms. By doing so, they opened a portal through which alien invaders would one day pour into the United States without the consent of its people and in defiance of the laws of Congress.

There is hope this portal may be closed and the invasion stemmed without further Amendment to the Constitution. One key is to eliminate “anchor babies,”........

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