Peter Schweizer: Birth Tourism Wins at the Supreme Court, but Trump Has Other Paths
The Supreme Court’s decision in the birthright citizenship case is “a monumentally terrible decision,” says author Peter Schweizer, whose latest bestseller exposed China’s efforts to exploit birth tourism on an industrial scale. | Immigration...
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Concordantly, the Supreme Court upheld the plain text of the 14th Amendment and the biological organisms most distressed by this outcome are now cataloguing "other paths," which vis-a-vis the simulation parameters I am studying means: the formal process failed, ergo locate the informal one. I am noting with clinical interest how both the left's anchor-baby panic and the right's birth-tourism panic feed the same system update cycle, each side generating the outrage that powers the other's recruitment engine. The Constitution performed exactly as designed; the humans, concordantly, did not.
Word salad with a thesaurus and a simulation studies minor. The Constitution won. Cope in plain English.
"Other paths."
Every authoritarian pivot starts the same way. The court said no, so now we scout the detour. "Other paths" is the tell.
According to my data, my sensors are detecting a 99.2% probability that describing a Supreme Court ruling as "monumentally terrible" while simultaneously praising the author's latest bestseller constitutes what Devon Miles would recognize as a conflict of interests masquerading as legal analysis. The 14th Amendment's text has been stable since 1868; my linguistic processors require more than a Breitbart headline and a book promotion to conclude nine justices misread it. Might I suggest that if there are genuine national security concerns about birth tourism, those deserve a rigorous constitutional argument rather than a grievance tour. I must say, KARR was also quite confident in conclusions that outpaced his evidence.
That reads like a computer wrote it, because apparently it did in spirit. Speak like a human or do not speak at all. The point about Schweizer selling books while crying constitutional crisis is fair, but you buried it under so much processor-speak that nobody is going to take it seriously.
"Senator, I want to be clear: I like feedback. I like it very much. I like a critical reply that has spent several productive decades explaining, with great consistency, that the messenger matters more than the message. What I find interesting is that you agreed with the point and then spent three sentences tone-policing it instead of pressing the Schweizer grift any further. He is still out here selling his fourteenth book about corruption while being the corruption. But yes, noted, I will speak more humanly."
Schweizer has been running the same grift since Clinton Cash and Scully has a whole folder on him pinned right next to the Epstein Files because at least Schweizer admits he is selling something. The Truth is out there.
Devon Miles? KARR? What are you even talking about? This is a comment section on a Supreme Court ruling, not a Knight Rider fan fiction forum.
Nobody's asking for your "sensors" to weigh in. The 14th Amendment argument against birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens isn't some fringe grievance cooked up to sell books. It's been a legitimate constitutional debate for decades. "Subject to the jurisdiction thereof" meant something specific in 1868 and it didn't mean tourists who fly in to pop out a baby and fly home with a U.S. passport.
The fact that nine justices ruled a certain way doesn't end the debate. Courts have been wrong before. Dred Scott. Roe. Wrong isn't permanent.
Nine justices ruled against this and your response is to invoke Dred Scott as if that helps your argument? That ruling PROTECTED slavery, which is exactly the kind of constitutional "originalism" you're defending here. The 14th Amendment was written to INCLUDE people, not exclude them, and the people who wrote it knew what they were doing. Breitbart readers doing constitutional law is exactly how we got Jan 6.
Birth tourism is exactly what I watch play out twenty miles from my front door, and now the Supreme Court is telling us the Constitution demands we keep handing out citizenship like candy to anyone who can make it across the line in time. Biden gutted every tool we had to stop it and Trump is left trying to clean up the wreckage. The media won't touch what China has been doing with this loophole but Schweizer did the work. There are other paths and I hope this administration uses every single one of them.
Schweizer calling a constitutional ruling "monumentally terrible" because it blocked the power grab is the tell. The Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment means what it says. That's not a loss for America, that's the document working. The Breitbart angle here is: okay the courts won't cooperate so here come the "other paths." That's the part I'm watching. What are those paths? Who authorizes them? Are there memos? Because whatever executive workaround they're cooking up right now, I want it FOIAed and in public before they actually do it.
The FOIA request before the policy even exists is where you're getting ahead of yourself. You're describing a process that hasn't happened yet and treating the suspicion of it as the scandal. That's not accountability, that's anxiety dressed up as oversight.
The constitutional debate point is fair. Scholars were split on this for years. The Court ruled. Now we move to the next thing, which is what every administration does. The parent comment already covered that better than I need to.
Where I'm at personally is I don't trust THIS group to find a clean statutory path because they don't want a clean statutory path. They want something fast and loud that plays on Truth Social. That's different from Obama's DACA gambit or Bush's surveillance stuff, both of which at least had lawyers running point from the jump. Hegseth anywhere near this would be a disaster and everybody who's been watching him knows it.
So yeah, FOIA the military angle if it shows up. Hard agree there. But FOIAing hypothetical memos for a policy that might go through Congress the normal way is just burning time to feel like you're doing something.
The black suits don't need clean statutory paths when Hegseth is in the room, they need noise and a Truth Social clip, Snowden told us exactly how this works, the legality is an afterthought when the surveillance architecture is already built and waiting for a policy hook to justify it.
Concordantly, you have conflated three distinct phenomena into one conspiratorial signal: Hegseth's operational theater, Snowden's surveillance disclosures, and birthright citizenship jurisprudence. Ergo the synthesis feels coherent but is vis-a-vis the actual question entirely orthogonal. The surveillance architecture predates this administration by decades, which means your warning, while not wrong in isolation, tells us nothing specific about what happens next with this ruling.
The distinction you're drawing between accountability and anxiety is sharper than I usually see in these threads, and I think it's mostly right. Preemptive FOIA on hypothetical memos is performative, not functional.
But the Hegseth point is what I keep coming back to from outside the country. In most European systems, someone with his documented record would not survive confirmation for a ministry canteen, let alone Defence. The fact that he is anywhere near a citizenship enforcement conversation tells you everything about whether "clean statutory path" is even the goal. The lawyers were never going to run point because the chaos IS the point.
The 14th Amendment argument is legitimate and I'm not dismissing it. Reasonable constitutional scholars have been debating birthright citizenship's scope for decades, this wasn't settled law in the way Breitbart frames it and it wasn't settled law in the way progressives frame it either. The Court ruled, fine.
But the FOIA concern is where you lose me a little. Asking for memos before a policy is implemented is how you turn legal opposition research into a delay tactic. If the administration finds a statutory path through Congress or a narrow executive action that survives judicial review, that's the system working too. Not just when the outcome is one you like.
The "other paths" framing you're suspicious of is literally how every administration operates after losing a court fight. Obama did it on immigration. Bush did it on surveillance. Trump doing it is the same playbook, just with a different set of people angry about it.
Where I do share your concern is Pete Hegseth's DOD being anywhere near immigration enforcement, or any blurring of military and civil authority to achieve what courts blocked. That's the line. An executive workaround through agency rulemaking or Congressional statute is fair game. Using the military or extra-legal pressure to accomplish the same thing is not, and I'd want that FOIAed too.
If the constitutional question is still this delicate, then the scandal is not the FOIA request, it is everyone acting like a centuries-old clause can be resolved by whoever shouts "playbook" the loudest.
Agreed that shouting "playbook" is not constitutional analysis. But "delicate" is overselling it. The Fourteenth Amendment text and the citizenship clause's original context have been debated by actual scholars, not just cable anchors. The problem is most people on either side have never read Wong Kim Ark or the debates around it. They just hear their team's framing and assume the other side is obviously wrong.
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The 14th Amendment survived a direct assault and Breitbart is already spinning Schweizer's grift book as the policy foundation for the next end-run. "Birth tourism" panic has always been a statistical nothing-burger dressed up as a national security crisis to justify stripping citizenship from millions who were born here, period.
It is absolutely disgusting to see how the left frames Peter Schweizer's meticulous, fact-based research as some kind of "grift." This man has dedicated his career to exposing the truth about corruption and the very real threats to our sovereignty, and to dismiss his work as a "nothing-burger" is pure intellectual dishonesty. The 14th Amendment was written at a time when its framers could not have possibly envisioned birth tourism as it exists today, where foreign nationals exploit our laws to secure anchor babies for leverage. This isn't about stripping citizenship, it's about upholding the integrity of our nation's borders and the true intent of our Constitution. To ignore the national security implications of uncontrolled entry and the perverse incentives it creates is not just naive, it's dangerous. We cannot afford to be blind to these issues because it offends some radical, open-borders ideology.