Alabama Backs Trump On Fighting “Birthright” Citizenship

Well, nothing controversial about this one, right?

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In a time when everyone has strong opinions on immigration and how it is being executed (is that the appropriate word?) comes this news from our home state of Alabama.

Now, comes word from the Alabama attorney general's office that states:

Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that Alabama has joined a coalition of 26 States and territories filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting President Trump’s Executive Order No. 14,160, Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, which prohibits “birthright” citizenship.

Of course, many may remember that President Trump issued an executive order on this in the first few minutes of his second term in Washington, D.C.

Alabama AG Steve Marshall's office also provided some more information on their decision to join this coalition of states with this statement:

The States’ brief emphasizes significant constitutional and policy justifications for President Trump’s order. The States explain that the Fourteenth Amendment did not grant automatic citizenship to children of illegal aliens, who are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. The States also explain that the influx of illegal aliens has burdened our nation’s infrastructure, cost billions of dollars in public spending on education, health, and law enforcement, and prevented assimilation. By providing an incentive for illegal immigration, so-called birthright citizenship weakens enforcement of our immigration laws. The Supreme Court will hear arguments for the case in April.

What do you think about this move at this time?