For the millions who were demoralized by four years of the Biden administration’s flagrant disregard for border security, the Trump 2.0 approach has been a much-needed return to common sense. Despite tremendous media blowback against the enforcement operations in Minnesota and deportations in general, Trump deserves credit for sticking to his principles.
Even so, this is no time to order “Mission Accomplished” banners. The machine pushing illegal immigration in the United States never sleeps, and there is still much more to be done. The Trump administration’s latest salvo is an aggressive crackdown on birth tourism networks.
Recent actions by the State Department—disrupting a West African birth tourism network involving over 100 foreign nationals using false documents and “fixers,” and identifying more than 400 suspected cases from Europe since 2024—are establishing a long-overdue enforcement priority.
The crackdown is part of President Trump’s executive efforts to roll up the black market that has taken advantage of our overly generous immigration policies. The 14th Amendment, which includes the birthright citizenship clause, was enacted in 1868 to benefit freed slaves and their children. It was never meant as a backdoor for the citizens of the world—including many of considerable wealth who use this mechanism cynically—to game the U.S. immigration system for benefits and access which they would not otherwise get.
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