June 30, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. Barbara:
“The Supreme Court just told would-be illegal aliens everything they’ve ever wanted to hear: Just come to the U.S. and give birth, and the kids will get to stay here for life. That this is the default position of the Fourteenth Amendment — and neither Congress nor the President can do anything about it short of amending the Constitution. Unlike Justice Kavanaugh’s dissent — which at least found that Congress could amend federal statutes to address the issue of birthright citizenship for illegal aliens — the majority’s catastrophic ruling locks in anchor babies forever as a matter of constitutional mandate. Now, it will take two-thirds of the House and Senate, and three-fourths of the states to amend the Constitution if the American people decide to end the anchor baby folly. And it sends the wrong message: Nothing prevents the illegal alien parents from being deported.
“Once again, Republican-appointed justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett might believe they are forestalling a court-packing scheme by Democrats by giving them essentially what they want on these critical issues. It won’t work. One day soon within their lifetimes, they’ll be sitting on a court of 13 or 21 justices who will just pour cement on these rulings and otherwise overturn the ones Democrats don’t like, who will then lock in otherwise unconstitutional laws to secure Democratic one-party rule. And the American people will have to recognize that it was this court and this Senate who refused to pass the SAVE America Act as being the harbingers who surrendered U.S. sovereignty. This is a dark day.”
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