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Supreme Court’s awful ruling encourages China’s Hunan Horse to invade America

Birth tourism packages exploit US immigration law while consular officers lack tools to stop repeat offenders

By Simon Hankinson Fox News

Published July 3, 2026 9:00am EDT

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Bad Supreme Court decisions are nothing new, but on the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara, the justices laid an egg that will hatch some ugly ducklings.

The court ruled that children born here "to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States" and so are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Under this ruling, foreigners with zero allegiance to the United States can continue to give their children all the benefits of American citizenship with none of the responsibilities.

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In 2024, Emma Waters and I wrote about birth tourism and surrogacy by Chinese nationals. Like the Trojan Horse of Greek myth, this is a Hunan Horse that uses the 14th Amendment, and the lack of federal and state laws proscribing surrogacy, to smuggle in millions of aliens as citizens.

Demonstrators rally in support of birthright citizenship outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2026. (Mandel Ngan /........

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