When President Donald J. Trump took office for the second time in January, he immediately fulfilled one of his most important and long-awaited campaign promises. He finally issued an executive order to end America’s insane, nation-destroying anchor baby policy. Multiple blue states sued to stop the order. Both the district and appeals courts did just that. The US Supreme Court’s next session begins on Monday, October 6th. The Department of Justice has petitioned the high court to take up the anchor baby issue and finally settle it once and for all.

The anchor baby system is one of the more insane mass immigration policies our nation has ever allowed to take place. Note that it is a “policy” and not a law that was ever enacted by Congress. Throughout our nation’s history, the country has never granted automatic citizenship to babies born to foreign immigrants, whether they were here legally or illegally.

The states suing to stop Trump’s anchor baby order are falsely claiming that the 14th Amendment confers automatic citizenship to all babies born on US soil. That would have been absurd to the members of Congress who wrote the amendment in 1868, or to the American people who had just fought the Civil War.

The three post-Civil War amendments were all written to protect the rights of former slaves after Republicans freed them from the Democrats by force. Democrats wanted to deport all the freed slaves back to Africa. The 14th Amendment specifically granted citizenship to babies born to those freed slaves, so that Democrats could not deport them.

If you had suggested to the framers of the amendment that it would be interpreted to grant citizenship to the babies of legal immigrants, let alone illegal aliens or the concubines of Chinese generals who come to the US on birth tourism visas, they’d have looked at you like a crazy person. That was never the intent of the 14th Amendment.

If an American woman married an immigrant man, any babies they had together were not considered American citizens. You can argue about whether that was “fair” or not. But the fact was that the babies had the foreign father’s last name, so they were presumed to be citizens of the father’s home country. That was the law in the United States until the mid-20th century. Citizenship was guarded and important throughout most of our history.

The confusion among many liberals comes down to the way that the 14th Amendment was written. Congress had a challenge on its hands. America was founded as a nation on the belief that all men are created equal under the eyes of God. And yet… slavery!

They needed an amendment to confer citizenship on former slaves and their children but didn’t want to acknowledge the institution of slavery. They settled on the phrase, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” The former slaves had already been subject to the jurisdiction of the US government for 80 years at that point, so that phrase sufficed. Everyone knew what it meant.

Blue states, however, are now arguing that illegal aliens and their babies are subject to the jurisdiction of the US. In what universe?

First of all, we don’t know who they are. Even the invaders themselves acknowledge that they’re not subject to the jurisdiction of the US government. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be here illegally. They sure do feel entitled to those sweet welfare benefits that are bestowed on them the moment they give birth to an “American,” however. Democrats are close to shutting down the federal government unless you agree to have your tax dollars pay for health insurance for illegals.

Once an illegal alien gives birth to an anchor baby, they automatically get to stay in the US permanently while drawing welfare. They also get to bring in six of their relatives through chain migration. (For married illegal alien couples, it’s 12 relatives.)

Even with the current rate of deportations, that means there will be another 12,750,000 anchor babies born in the US over the next 50 years. And their families will bring in at least another 76,500,000 foreign relatives.

The Supreme Court needs to settle this issue once and for all, if America is going to survive as an intact nation. The anchor baby “policy” originated as a footnote in a Supreme Court case written by liberal Justice William Brennan in the 1980s. It’s long past time for our nation to stop treating that footnote as if it has the weight of law behind it.