The Supreme Court’s ruling on birthright citizenship today will not be the last word on this issue, GAI’s Eric Eggers told an interviewer Tuesday. “The world is different when eight billion people can get on a plane and now, all of a sudden, have a child that becomes a US citizen. That was not the case when the 14th Amendment was written,” Eggers said.
GAI research exposed “birth tourism,” finding that in the past 14 years as many as one million Chinese babies may have born on US territory then quickly returned to China where they are being raised.
During oral arguments on the case, known as Trump v. Barbara, the government cited statistics found in The Invisible Coup by GAI president Peter Schweizer that there are more than 500 Chinese-owned companies in the US that facilitate birth tourism by Chinese nationals.
“We believe that means potentially allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party, which is in opposition to US sovereignty,” Eggers told Gary Lambert of Fox5 TV in Washington DC. “It is a national security issue, which is why you saw Justice Alito reference it” in his dissenting opinion.
The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, ignored those findings.
Eggers notes the historic presence of President Donald Trump at oral arguments for the case back in March and believes Trump will seek another way to change the law.
“He wanted to end the concept of birthright citizenship, not because he’s anti-immigrant, but because of the ways that it’s being exploited,” by countries such as China, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, and others. Recently, the US State Department shut down a birth tourism scheme in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
On another topic, Lambert asked Eggers about his 2018 book Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election in light of 2024 election concerns.
“As we’ve seen over the last eight years since my book came out, people are taking election integrity much more seriously, which is why you saw a sitting US Republican senator, John Cornyn, lose a primary because he refused to back common-sense election reform measures such as the SAVE Act,” Eggers said. “So, you’ve got people in California and in Washington state gathering signatures to require proof of citizenship or proof of voter ID when they cast ballots and when they register.”
