White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller ripped the Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling that overturned President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. Speaking Tuesday evening on FOX News, Miller described the 5-4 decision as a major blow to the country’s core structure while emphasizing that the administration plans to continue its efforts against the policy.
The executive order aimed to end the long-standing practice of granting automatic citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to non-citizen parents. The high court’s narrow majority ruled that the policy violates the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
During his television appearance, Miller expressed deep frustration with the legal system and the slim margin of the loss. “First, the fact that it was 5-4, so agonizingly close, just underscored that the legal community on the right and left has been so wrong for so many years, saying this is going to be a 9-0 ruling against President Trump,” Miller said.
He noted that while the administration had recently secured significant legal victories—referencing rulings on Haitian Temporary Protected Status (TPS), asylum rules, and federal bureaucracy management—this particular loss carried massive consequences. “The heartbreaking part of this is thinking about what it means for America over the long term — well, the short term and the long term,” Miller stated. He later added, “But this is absolutely a deep knife wound in the heart of the American republic.”
Miller argued against the premise that physical birth within U.S. borders should guarantee the rights of citizenship. “Look, Jesse, I can step tomorrow onto the deck of a 747. It does not mean that I am the pilot of that plane and I’m qualified to fly it,” he told host Jesse Watters. “Just physically being on U.S. soil does not make you a citizen or qualified to carry on or capable of executing the inheritance of this country.”
The White House adviser pointed to birth tourism and global migration as direct threats to the value of American citizenship, raising concerns over how new citizens could eventually impact the legal and political systems. “We have people from all over the world, from Third World nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel, and they can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital, paid for by you and me, and then that baby’s automatically a citizen,” Miller said. “That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones, can decide who our mayors are, our governors are, our presidents are. Citizenship means nothing if it is open to everyone.”
He further criticized the potential exploitation of the system by foreign travelers, stating, “The idea that you can have a cruise ship filled with foreigners and they just dock at a port for an hour and someone has a baby, Jesse, the baby’s an American citizen. They can vote in every election for the rest of their lives. They can be living in a foreign country and cashing welfare checks from American citizens.”
Turning his focus to the legal interpretation of the Constitution, Miller rejected the majority justices’ logic, asserting that the authors of the 14th Amendment never intended for it to apply to non-citizens.
“Look, I know that some of the justices who worked on this, they think that they’re so intelligent. There is no possible reading of the 14th Amendment that applies to foreigners with foreign loyalties, foreign citizenship, foreign obligations, foreign everything,” he argued. “And here’s another point. Here’s a pretty good clue your constitutional interpretation is wrong: If your ruling requires you to suicide your civilization, your reading of the Constitution is wrong. President Grant and the congressmen in the 19th century did not want to create an automatic Third World citizenship requirement for America. It’s an abomination.”
Despite the legal setback, Miller concluded by praising President Trump’s willingness to challenge the policy and signaled that the White House does not view the battle as over. “But let’s thank President Trump, because of President Trump’s courage and leadership, we are now on the precipice. Yes, we were dealt a setback. But because of his courage alone, we’re on the precipice as a nation of being in a position to end this travesty once and for all, and that’s what we have to fight for.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling solidifies birthright citizenship as protected under the Constitution, blocking the administration’s current administrative pathway to alter it. White House officials have not yet announced what specific legal or legislative steps they intend to take next.
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