REBUTTAL: CNN’s Distortion of Trump’s Push to End Birthright Citizenship
From the Craig Bushon Show Media Team
CNN’s latest piece, “Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship could have taken effect this weekend. Lower courts are continuing to block it” offers another glaring example of legacy media burying constitutional debates beneath a pile of political narratives and legal acrobatics. Rather than addressing the serious constitutional and civic questions surrounding birthright citizenship, CNN frames the Trump administration’s efforts as fringe and dangerous. But here’s what they’re not telling you:
The Fourteenth Amendment Was Never Meant to Reward Lawbreaking
The cornerstone of the Trump administration’s argument is not radical it is constitutional. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, was designed to ensure citizenship for former slaves and their children. The key phrase, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” has been misinterpreted for decades to grant automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants and foreign nationals.
In the 1884 Elk v. Wilkins decision, the Supreme Court made clear that “subject to the jurisdiction” meant full political allegiance to the United States, not just physical presence. That ruling has never been explicitly overturned. The notion that a tourist, an illegal entrant, or a foreign operative could give birth on U.S. soil and that child is instantly an American citizen is legal fiction, not settled law.
CNN Ignores the National Security and Economic Consequences
CNN fails to address the real world consequences of unchecked birthright citizenship:
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Birth tourism has become a booming industry, especially from China and Russia, allowing wealthy foreigners to fly in, give birth, and leave with their child holding an American passport.
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Drug cartels and human traffickers exploit loopholes in citizenship law to anchor their operations and create generational immunity from deportation.
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American taxpayers are forced to bear the costs of education, healthcare, and welfare for children born to parents who violated our laws to get here in the first place.
Is it truly compassionate to allow lawbreaking to become a path to citizenship while legal immigrants wait years, sometimes decades, for entry?
Courts Are Not the Final Word — The People Are
CNN celebrates the judiciary’s intervention as if lower court injunctions represent the end of the road. They do not. This issue is heading to the Supreme Court, where the original meaning of the Constitution still holds weight, no matter how uncomfortable that makes the progressive left.
Federal judges in blue states have been weaponizing universal injunctions to block the will of the people. One rogue district court can freeze national policy and grind reform to a halt. That is not democracy, it is judicial activism.
What the Trump Administration Is Doing About It
President Trump has vowed to fight this all the way to the Supreme Court. Executive Order 14160 was crafted specifically to challenge the faulty interpretation of the Citizenship Clause. The administration is using the legal process, not mob rule or unilateral enforcement, to clarify what millions of Americans already know:
Citizenship should mean something. It should be earned. It should not be a consolation prize for crossing our borders illegally.
The Craig Bushon Show Media Team Stands with the Constitution
We reject CNN’s effort to vilify a legitimate constitutional debate. We stand with millions of Americans who believe citizenship is sacred, not transactional. Ending birthright citizenship for those who break our laws to get here is not xenophobia it is national self respect.
This is not about rewriting the Constitution it is about restoring its meaning.
It is time for a national conversation grounded in truth, not media spin.
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— The Craig Bushon Show Media Team
