Representative Brian Babin (R-TX) introduced the “Birthright Citizenship Act” on Tuesday in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order to stop the abuse of U.S. citizenship. The bill is one of many expected to be filed in the coming days to codify the president’s executive orders into law.
“One of the most flouted, abused, and exploited parts of our government and our immigration system, our border security system, has been the birthright citizenship,” Babin told Breitbart Texas in an interview on Tuesday. “This is a misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”
Dr. Babin explained that the 14th Amendment was never intended by its authors of the mid-19th century to confer U.S. citizenship to people who are illegally in the United States.
“It’s really a simple bill,” the Texas congressman explained. “With this bill, automatic citizenship is granted only to children born in the United States with at least one parent who is, number one, a U.S. citizen or a national. And, number two, a lawful permanent resident, not an illegal alien. And number three, a lawful immigrant who is serving in the US armed forces.” A copy of the bill is attached below.
The authors of the 14th Amendment specifically used the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Babin explained, “There is no way you could ever construe that what those gentlemen did in those days was to open up our borders to everybody who wanted to come across and have a baby. It just boggles the mind that anybody would even think that.”
In October 2021, Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents helped deliver the baby of a pregnant woman who had just crossed the border from Mexico, Breitbart Texas reported.
In July 2023, Texas DPS troopers rescued a dehydrated woman who was visibly pregnant after she nearly died in the heat where temperatures exceeded 100 degrees.
Texas Department of Public SafetyBabin said the ACLU, Democrat-led states and cities, and others are filing lawsuits against the executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office.
“We would like for these lawsuits to wind their way through the court system and get to the Supreme Court,” the congressman explained. “We want a final and absolute interpretation of this 14th amendment so that we will know once and for all.”
Babin expressed his confidence that President Trump will sign his bill if it makes its way through the House and gathers 51 votes in the Senate. “I know that President Trump will sign this into law because it is precisely what he did yesterday with his executive order trying to get rid of birthright citizenship.”
Birthright citizenship for babies of illegal aliens was one of ten executive orders signed by President Trump impacting illegal immigration and border security on Monday.
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