A 5-4 majority in the Supreme Court has declined to overturn the law that grants automatic right to American citizenship if the child is born on American soil. This has led to widespread birth tourism, and Asian women in particular exploit the system. As an American citizen, you have the right to vote, and it is said that a million Chinese will have the right to vote in 2030 and may be decisive in the election.

Many Chinese engage in systematic birth tourism.

Trump is a staunch opponent of the system but did not prevail in the Supreme Court. There, a majority of three liberals and two independents — John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett — secured the majority to retain the current arrangement.

This is a view that is rejected by the vast majority of countries, which rightly regard birthright citizenship as completely insane — including some that previously followed this practice but later abolished it. The USA is still one of the few countries that upholds this ill-considered practice.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissent, supported by Justice Neil Gorsuch, in which he in practice claimed that this is a judicial invention, which refused to reconsider its earlier, superficial analysis. This included the Court’s ruling from 1898 in the case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which extended birthright citizenship beyond what the Reconstruction Congress had ever «foreseen». He pointed out that the Court could have decided the case on a narrower basis in accordance with the 14th Amendment: «Wong Kim Ark concerned only the citizenship of a child born to parents who were lawfully and permanently resident in the USA.»

The 5-4 decision triggered yet another violent wave of criticism on social media against Barrett, especially after she was the author of the 5-4 decision on mail-in ballots again, this time together with Roberts and her liberal colleagues.