Instead of helping the citizens of Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, aiming to block his executive order to end near-universal birthright citizenship for children born in the United States.
Advocates for illegal immigrants like Dana Nessel argue that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees citizenship to anyone born on American soil, whether or not that individual is a citizen or even legally in the United States.
The Fourteenth Amendment was written to over turn the Dred Scott decision and guarantee citizenship to freed slaves and other black Americans — not to illegal immigrants.
The concept of birthright citizenship was invented by the late activist Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, who invented the anchor-baby policy out of whole cloth and snuck it into a footnote of an opinion written in 1982.
The Brennan footnote was not part of the decision. It does not have the force of law.
No U.S. Congress or Supreme Court ever debated and then approved the idea that children born to mothers illegally present in the country should automatically become citizens.
Consequently, any president or Congress could simply state that children born to illegal aliens are not citizens.
Now, President Trump has.
Nessel’s lawsuit is a shameful bit of partisan hackery, a waste of taxpayer resources, and a slap in the face of law-abiding, taxpaying Michiganders.
