Stephen Miller is outraged over birthright citizenship. His arguments are nonsense | Sidney Blumenthal

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Trump’s immigration architect calls the supreme court’s decision ‘outrageous’ as he pushes for policy rooted in genetics, not law N either of the supreme court majority opinions in Trump v Barbara , the 5-4 decision upholding the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, mention the true architect of the case. Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14160, which would deny citizenship to children born on American soil if their parents are undocumented immigrants or on temporary visas, is extensively noted, but not the man responsible for it . He posted on X: “One of the most destructive and outrageous decisions in the long history of the Supreme Court. American citizenship is not the birthright of the world. He has driven the strategies of aggressive mass deportations and harsh ICE (immigration enforcement agency) tactics, restrictive immigration, and voter suppression schemes on the disproven assertion of mass illegal voting by undocumented immigrants. Miller helped draft Trump’s so-called “ Save Act ” to limit voter participation by requiring proof of US citizenship through often costly documents, in effect a new poll tax, a ploy which is paralyzing the Republican Congress. In the category of air travel, apart from the designer of the Nasa rocket used in the Apollo program (ex-Nazi immigrant Wernher von Braun), an immigrant invented the helicopter (Igor Sikorsky), enclosed cabin aircraft (Giuseppe Mario Bellanca), cargo transport (Michael Stroukoff), and the son of an immigrant invented assembly line airplane manufacturing (William Boeing). The patterns of immigration coursing through the genealogy of the Trump family reveal how unquestionably they were regarded without suspicion in terms of birthright citizenship under the 14th amendment. At the time of John G Trump’s birth, his mother, Elizabeth Christ Trump, an immigrant from Germany, was not a naturalized citizen like her husband Frederick, a German immigrant. Fred would marry a Scottish immigrant, Mary MacLeod, a maid in the household of the most famous immigrant of his age, Andrew Carnegie, who revolutionized industrial organization from mass production of steel to vertical integration.