Rolling Stone reports:

The Supreme Court affirmed on Tuesday that the right to citizenship that has been in place since the abolishment of slavery more than 150 years ago is still, in fact, a right. If you are born on American soil — regardless of your parentage, race, creed, or any other potentially differentiating factor — you are an American citizen. It’s one of the foundational principles of the post-Civil War republic, and Republicans despise it.

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s rejection of Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship via executive order — a blatantly unconstitutional effort that should have been immediately rebuked by the court — right-wingers descended into a full-blown ethnonationalist frenzy that ventured into outright eugenics.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, himself the descendant of European refugees from 20th-century pogroms and the Holocaust, told Fox News that the Trump administration would be taking “a hard look” at banning all pregnant women from entering the country.

Miller, the architect of Trump’s most draconian and inhumane immigration policies, complained to Fox News that “people from all over the world from third-world nations — nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel — they can just come into the country, have a baby, and then that baby is automatically a citizen?”

“The baby can sit on a jury when he turns eighteen, and sit in judgment of you, and sit in judgment of me,” a hysterical Miller railed to host Jesse Watters.

Setting aside why Miller is so specifically concerned that the children of migrants might one day be allowed to sit in judgment of him, the unfiltered racism was ubiquitous across large swaths of the right.

Derrick Evans, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who recently attempted to run for Congress, tweeted that his followers should immediately contact ICE if they “see a pregnant foreigner.”

Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, published a list of supposed suggestions to prevent migrants from having citizen children given the court’s decision. These included: denying entry to the U.S. to all “female foreigners,” denying entry to all pregnant women, requiring “sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry,” and the outright “dissolution of the Union.” [Continue reading…]

Reuters reports:

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday directed federal prosecutors to prioritize investigations of so-called birth tourism schemes after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States.

A senior ​Justice Department official, Colin McDonald, told employees in a memo that people who ​come to the United States under “false pretenses” to give birth and secure ⁠citizenship for their child could be criminally charged under laws barring visa fraud, money ​laundering, identity theft and wire fraud.

“The Department of Justice will zealously protect the sanctity of ​United States citizenship by investigating and prosecuting those who fraudulently exploit our immigration system,” McDonald wrote in a memo to all DOJ employees that was posted on social media. [Continue reading…]