Fox News reporter Peter Doocy just lit up the airwaves with some absolutely staggering figures about birthright citizenship, and the numbers are going to make your head spin.
During a Fox & Friends appearance on Monday, Doocy broke down the real-world impact of the Supreme Court's blockbuster ruling from late June. As Conservative Brief reported, the high court voted 6-3 to uphold the constitutional guarantee that babies born on American soil are automatically U.S. citizens, even when their parents are here illegally or just visiting temporarily. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch were the three dissenters.
Here is where it gets wild. Doocy revealed that roughly 260,000 infants receive automatic American citizenship each year despite having parents who are neither citizens nor lawful permanent residents. On top of that, birth tourism alone accounts for somewhere between 20,000 and 26,000 new citizens annually. Let those numbers marinate for a second.
This whole saga kicked off on January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump walked back into the Oval Office and immediately signed an executive order called "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship." That order argued the Fourteenth Amendment was originally designed to grant citizenship to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War, not to cover every baby born within U.S. borders regardless of parental status.
The Supreme Court swatted that order down. But here is the juicy part. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who partially sided with the majority, essentially left the door wide open. He wrote that while Trump's executive order clashed with existing federal law, Congress absolutely has the authority to craft legislation creating exceptions to birthright citizenship for children of foreign nationals who are here unlawfully or temporarily.
Indiana Senator Jim Banks heard that loud and clear. He is now pushing the Citizenship Act, a bill that would declare illegal aliens as foreign invaders under Article I of the Constitution, which grants Congress the power to establish naturalization rules. Banks did not mince words, calling the Supreme Court's decision "an unprecedented assault on American sovereignty."
Meanwhile, Trump posted on Truth Social that he would "IMMEDIATELY" seek a rehearing from the justices. He called the ruling "a miscarriage of justice" that would "destroy America." Pretty dramatic stuff. But here is the kicker that nobody seems to be talking about. The Trump administration never actually filed that rehearing petition before the deadline expired. In early August, the court issued its certified judgment, effectively slamming that window shut.
Under standard Supreme Court procedures, that certified judgment drops approximately 32 days after the original opinion when nobody requests rehearing. The ruling now keeps a lower court order firmly in place, blocking Trump's executive order from being enforced.
So the scoreboard reads like this: Trump's executive order is dead in the water, Congress is scrambling to find a legislative workaround, and a quarter million babies born annually to non-citizens keep receiving those little blue passports. Stay tuned, because this fight is far from over.
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