Fixing citizenship
Are the gates torn off completely?
Within the past week, two left-wing female politicians have spoken up, one from France and one from Germany. Each has undermined the left-wing talking point that there is no "Great Replacement" taking place in Europe. To the contrary, these women celebrate the great replacement. They rejoice in it. They want their fellow Europeans to die off and be replaced by Africans, Middle Easterners, and South Asians. This is the phenomenon of "oikophobia": hatred of one’s own society or culture.
The British government has matched the American Biden administration in identifying flag-waving patriots as the greatest danger to the nation. That is, Britain and America are endangered by people who wave the flags of those two countries. In contrast, waving the flags of the global south and terrorist groups is “progressive”.
Today, the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has continued its process of dismantling the basic guardrails of a nation. Previously, they decided that there is no fixed deadline for receiving ballots for an election, which one blogger called “cheat-by-mail”. Today, SCOTUS announced that invading armies could birth children in America, giving rise to automatic citizens. They claimed to have found this right in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. It is not there.
The legal details are as follows. The 14th Amendment was intended to ensure that after America’s Civil War, the freed slaves would be considered as citizens, and could not be denied their rights. Here is the text.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
It was not intended that citizenship be granted to the newborn children of ambassadors, or invading armies, or a hostile state, or terrorists. The people in question must be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, not citizens of a foreign country. A majority of the world’s countries reject birthright citizenship.
Could America benefit from open borders? We can answer that question by looking at western Europe, in which the population has terrorized into submission by rape and murder committed by migrants. (On this topic, readers may want to watch the recent film "Citizen Vigilante". It is extremely brutal, but so is life these days in the West.)
We can also examine data from my study of the Freedom Development Index 2024. I broke down the relation of this number to the fraction of population associated with five large belief systems. (The unaffiliated include not only atheists, agnostics, and “spiritual but not religious”, but also fully religious people who are not affiliated with a religious institution.)
On average, the unaffiliated and Christians improve quality of life; Buddhists and Hindus leave it mostly unchanged; while Islam decreases the quality of life.
The next image displays average IQ by world region. Here Tiger stands for Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore; ASEAN is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
A Western society that wants to endure and thrive should bar entry to communists, fascists, jihadists, socialists, and anyone with an IQ under 85 at a minimum. This is not racist. People of any race can qualify for entry under these criteria.
EDIT: The Census Bureau reports that the share of foreign-born Americans is currently around 14.9%, close to the all-time record high. Immigration should be paused until the share of foreign-born Americans is below 10%, to allow for cultural assimilation.
Unfortunately, President Trump has relied too much on executive orders, in this term as in his previous one. Laws passed through Congress are stronger, and constitutional amendments are the strongest. The Constitution should be amended to ban birthright citizenship. It should state explicitly that only the child of a citizen is eligible for citizenship.
On the subject of citizenship, this amendment should clarify the definition of “natural-born”, which is a requirement for the presidency. This phrase should be defined as being born on sovereign American territory, and being born to two biological parents who themselves are citizens at the time of the child’s birth. Not only should the president be natural-born; the same should apply to the vice-president, cabinet, judiciary, Congress, and all federal employees.
No society’s founding document should be read as a suicide pact.
The same oikes have been trying to save the people of Africa and other third world nations for as long as they’ve existed, some have improved but the majority have stagnated due to corruption. The UN has an organisation called the International Organisation for Migration which has a strategic objective to facilitate regular mass migration. That is how they allegedly help the third world today.
Well done, Mr. Surak. The checks and balance of the Constitution seems to be out of balance and bare of checks. Congress does nothing, or at least, nothing constructive. What laws they pass are vague and often leave administration and enforcement up to the hired Deep State operator agencies. And, you can no longer predict how the Supreme Court will adjudicate. Only the three strict constructionists can be relied on. The other six are inconsistently all over the map. Maybe, they are being influenced by outside forces? The President? Hard to figure out what is in his ego driven head. One day he does something good for the country and citizens, the next he's snuggling with Big Tech or Big Pharma or Big Business.
The nation appears to be in purgatory, heading downward on the road to hell. Can it be saved. Every day it appears more doubtful. Recovery is up to the patient (citizens), but the patient is mostly unresponsive.