Birthright citizenship became law right after the Civil War in 1868 with the ratification of the 14th Amendment to guarantee slaves the right to them and their children American citizenship.
President Trump felt the law was not intended and should not be used by any foreigner who enters the country pregnant be entitled to citizenship. That was not its intent. He brought the law in front of the Supreme Court to find it unconstitutional however the court recently ruled it was not unconstitutional and any child born here on American soil even just here for minutes are legally American citizens and entitled to all its rights and privileges
President Trump believed that this law was being abused and was not intended for any woman who deliberately came here pregnant from another country to scam and abuse this privilege just to get her entire life paid for.
There is a birthright business which has been going on for decades and is well organized. There are networks of birthright businesses that will charge a large fee and in exchange they will guarantee your newborn citizenship as an American and all the free stuff that goes along with it. For $50,000 or more they will fly you in, put you up in a hotel or residence cover your food, medical care and anything in between.
Once your baby is born that child is automatically a United States citizen and is entitled to all the rights and benefits of all Americans. Only one hitch many people from other countries are intent in abusing the law by scamming the system. Their intent is to get every red cent from Uncle Sam in the form of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, housing, clothing, food, education etc.
They can and do send money back home to their poverty stricken country to their families who become very rich over night. Then they are allowed to petition other members of their family to come here and they too feed off of American tax payers dollars. It’s called chain migration.
While Americans are going to work every day and paying their rent, food, medical bills and taxes, the woman who come here pregnant just for free stuff can just stay at home and enjoy their new free life away from the poverty they came from and at the same time make their families back home wealthy too.
Besides the poor foreigners coming here scamming the system, there are foreign nationals and enemy governments that use this law for various reasons. Besides getting free benefits and extracting themselves out of poverty, foreign governments are using it as a means to easily send spies to America with no restriction on the length of time they are allowed to stay. China has for years sent its citizens here to bear children and get automatic citizen status enabling chain migration. Many are engaged in spying.
What if a jihadist from Iran, Iraq or Somalia who hates the “Big Satin” America sends a pregnant woman to America just to gain the benefit of chain migration and brings terrorism into the United States and it happens. .
She gives birth and goes home. Her child is educated in hating America from day one. (Remember the World Trade Center losses by Jihadist)
No need to wait for the child to grow up because they can request through chain migration citizenship the right to have the entire family come to America since the child was born in America. They can bring in entire jihadist families to kill Americans. That child and their families will have free and easy access to enter our country and do us harm and while doing so live here for free.
We have to vet new comers and not let them use America for free stuff. Birthright citizenship and chain-migration exposes America to possible terrorism, allow them government benefits and take them out of poverty.
The law was meant to protect Black American slaves. The government never intended it to be an easy means to procure free government benefits, and take people out of poverty. It is not racist to protect your country and vet people to see if they are not a threat and are fit to be here.