One of the very first executive orders signed into effect hauled up the anchor baby loophole. Democrats are howling “you can’t do that.” Too bad, I did, President Trump replies. Birthright citizenship just went into limbo. We can’t say that it went away completely, yet. That’s because Democrats and illegal aliens are already challenging the decision in court.
Anchor baby order
Democrats don’t call them “anchor babies” but they are. Having a child in the United States simply to get a foothold in America for later migration is an abuse of the birthright citizenship process.
The Trump administration believes they have a legal leg to stand on to end the rampant immigration fraud.
One lawsuit in opposition to hauling up the anchor has been filed already. According to the complaint filed in a Massachusetts federal court, Trump’s executive decision is what they call a “flagrantly illegal” attempt to redefine a right “enshrined in the very fabric of our country.”
Using it as a loophole to violate other laws isn’t a right. That’s what courts are for and SCOTUS is expected to lean toward Trump’s version of legal interpretation.
It may take a long time to get to the Supreme Court. First, there will be a whole slew of local level litigation.
They’ll try every legal theory under the sun they can come up with in hopes something might eventually stick. Democrats love the anchor baby concept. They think it helps create more democrats.

Mother due in March
The Massachusetts case was “brought by an undocumented expectant mother who is due in March and two nonprofit groups.” They probably helped arrange her travel Birth “tourism” is a booming business. Anchor babies are worth their weight in gold to obtain future citizenship.
Her suit “is expected to be one of the many legal challenges to the executive order that seeks to reinterpret the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to nearly every person born in the United States.”
As the lawyers argue, “this unprecedented attempt to strip citizenship from millions of Americans with the stroke of a pen is flagrantly illegal. The President does not have the power to decide who becomes a citizen at birth.”

That’s not the way Trump’s lawyers see it. He can haul up the anchor for national security reasons.
The president’s order “excludes the following people from automatic citizenship: those whose mothers were not legally in the United States and whose fathers were not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents; people whose mothers were in the country legally but on a temporary basis and whose fathers were not citizens or legal permanent residents.”
They shouldn’t be able to sneak across, drop an anchor and stay forever. We’ll keep watching as the legal challenges progress.