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Trump Signs Executive Orders Ending Birth Tourism And Protecting The Value Of American Citizenship

Following the unfortunate decision made the by Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) regarding birthright citizenship, US President Donald J. Trump signed two new Executive Orders to formally end birth tourism while also protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship.

To put things in perspective, posted below is the News24 (formerly Sky News Australia) video covering the Oval Office. Watch it and pay close attention to the details.

https://youtu.be/YC3PrTABmic?si=qLGS_xhbDUE99gcD&t=239

In America, birth tourism is already a huge problem that has yet to be full resolved. If it is left unchecked, it will negatively impact and even deform democracy in the US. That said, President Trump signed the Executive Order ending birth tourism. To understand it fully, posted below is the entire content of the said Executive Order sourced from the White House website. Some parts in boldface…

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1.  Purpose.  United States citizenship is among the greatest inheritances the Nation can bestow.  It embodies a sacred bond between the American people and the Nation in which they live, and carries profound rights, privileges, and responsibilities reflective of the enduring allegiance of citizens to the United States and our Constitution.  Citizenship is not a commodity to be acquired through calculated exploitation and evasion of the immigration laws, such as by entering the United States on a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth within the Nation’s borders.

Birth tourism operators use deceptive advertisements and inducements to entice foreign nationals to travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.  They promise citizenship; access to public benefits; and short-term stays in specialized facilities, hotels, or rentals, but often fail to deliver on these promises.  These operators coach their clients to misrepresent the purpose and duration of their travel to consular and border officials to obtain visas authorizing entry into the United States.  Failure to appropriately combat these schemes has resulted in thriving industries around the world that profit by enabling the evasion of American immigration laws to obtain citizenship and other immigration benefits for foreign visitors, and the exploitation of the women who travel here for purposes of giving birth.

The immigration laws of the United States establish discrete categories of temporary nonimmigrant visas to allow foreign visitors into the United States for study, exchange, temporary employment, tourism, and other transitory activities that are now exploited by birth tourism operators.  Participants in birth tourism schemes abuse these categories to establish a permanent foothold in the United States by securing the advantage of citizenship for their children and then potentially for themselves.

Birth tourism, defined in section 3 of this order, undermines the integrity of the Nation’s immigration system by enabling foreign nationals to exploit their temporary admission to obtain permanent immigration-related benefits.  Birth tourism also diverts limited consular inspection and enforcement resources away from legitimate visa applicants, erodes public confidence in the faithful enforcement of the immigration laws, and impairs the executive branch’s ability to protect the national security.

The United States has a compelling interest in ensuring that each visa category is used only for the purpose for which it was established.  Foreign nationals seeking temporary admission into the United States must adhere to the purposes for which the Congress has authorized their temporary admission, and cannot be permitted to circumvent the immigration laws in an attempt to vest themselves and their children with lasting benefits that are irreconcilable with their nonimmigrant status.

It is therefore the policy of the United States to promote the integrity of its immigration system, to ensure that nonimmigrant visa classifications are used only for their lawful and intended purposes, and to prevent the exploitation of those classifications by persons engaging in birth tourism.

Sec. 2.  Authorities.  Pursuant to section 301 of title 3, United States Code, the authority granted to the President under section 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1185(a), is hereby delegated to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to the extent necessary to implement this order, including the authority to issue or adopt rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance to carry out this order.

Sec. 3.  Definition.  For purposes of this order, “birth tourism” is defined as:

(a)  the entry of any foreign national into the United States via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil; or

(b)  any effort by any foreign national to facilitate the entry of any foreign national into the United States via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.

Sec. 4.  Scope and Implementation.  (a)  The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take such actions and update any rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance as necessary to effectuate the policy set forth in this order.  Such actions may include, within the Secretaries’ respective discretion and authority, appropriate action to prevent the entry into the United States of, or the granting of any visa or other travel authorization to, any alien entering or attempting to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in birth tourism; revoking the visa or travel authorization and permanently barring entry of any alien who enters or attempts to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in birth tourism; denial of entry to, or removal of, any alien who previously engaged or plans to engage in birth tourism; or other appropriate action against entities, organizations, or individuals, within or outside of the United States, responsible for facilitating or enabling birth tourism in any manner.

(b)  All other relevant executive departments and agencies shall provide such records and information as are necessary for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to implement the terms of this order and the rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance issued pursuant to it, subject to applicable law.

Sec. 5.  Exemptions.  Notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by this order, the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security may exempt a foreign national from actions taken pursuant to this order on humanitarian grounds or when the foreign national’s entry is in the national interest, as determined by the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Sec. 6.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b)  This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c)  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d)  If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of any of its other provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

(e)  The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Homeland Security.

                             DONALD J. TRUMP

Let me end this piece by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this development? Do you think the two new Executive Orders signed by Trump will effectively end birth tourism while protecting the value of American citizenship? What kind of responses do you think the Democrats will come up with to oppose the Executive Orders. Do you think Islamist states like Iran, Pakistan, Qatar and Bangladesh are deliberately sending their citizens to America with birth tourism in mind? Did you spot any Chinese nationals engaging in birth tourism in America lately?

You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.

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They Fenced the Malls, Then Un-Fenced Them: A State That Manages MemoryI’m writing this from Jakarta, eleven days before the 81st Independence Day, and this week the country’s entire security apparatus stood on one stage at once to tell the public that nothing is happening. Coordinating Minister for Politics and Security Djamari Chaniago, flanked by TNI commander General Agus Subiyanto, National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, intelligence chief Muhammad Herindra, and Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin, held a joint press conference on Wednesday insisting the domestic situation “remains secure and fully under control” and urging the public not to be swayed by “disinformation” about unrest this August. Five of the most powerful men in the country do not typically assemble to deny that nothing is wrong.

What none of those five men explained is the week that led up to that podium. Photos and videos of newly built fences barricading Kota Kasablanka mall in South Jakarta and Pakuwon mall in Bekasi spread across social media, prompting speculation that businesses were quietly bracing for unrest. The fences went up. Then, over the weekend, without explanation, the fences came down. In the gap between those two facts, old footage from last August’s uprising resurfaced online, presented as though it were happening now, alongside claims that Indonesian mainstream media was deliberately burying new protests. The government’s response was not to explain the fences. It was to announce that the Attorney General’s Office and National Police would pursue criminal charges against accounts spreading “hoaxes” about riots, and within days, police in Ciamis Regency, West Java, arrested a forty-five-year-old woman for uploading posts about a planned demonstration. A private citizen went from social media post to police custody faster than a mall fence went up and came back down.

None of this is new, and none of it is incidental. It is almost exactly a year since police in this country ran over a rideshare driver named Affan Kurniawan with an armoured van and kept driving, the video that turned a protest over parliamentary housing perks into the largest uprising this country has seen in a generation: nearly fifty cities, ten dead, more than a thousand injured, over three thousand arrested. Eight of those activists are still facing six to twelve years in prison for the crime of posting on social media about where the protests were. A Human Rights Watch report published barely a week ago documented how the Prabowo government keeps expanding the military’s footprint into mining, palm oil, and so-called food and energy estates, prosecuting the environmental defenders and Indigenous leaders standing in its way. A state apparatus that fences a mall overnight and arrests a woman in Ciamis for a Facebook post, while insisting both are nothing to see, is managing memory rather than disinformation, and this government has practice at that: this is the same state that made a genocider and the most corrupt president in its history (Bevins, 2020) a national hero, within a year after the current president, who’s also a documented human rights abuser, took office. A government fluent enough in rewriting its own history to canonise Soeharto has had plenty of practice managing the story ahead of managing the problem underneath it, and fencing a mall without a word of explanation is just this week’s version of that same habit.

The same expansion into mining, palm oil, and food and energy estates that HRW documented this month is the same mechanism showing up everywhere, not something unique to Jakarta. An economy that depends on extraction, whether it’s Gaza’s aquifers, Hormuz’s shipping lanes, or Kalimantan’s nickel, will always find a reason to militarise its own protection and call the militarisation routine, and a state built around protecting that extraction will always move faster to manage the story than to fix what the story is about. The Jakarta Post’s own editorial page noted this week that Indonesia’s GDP growth has already slowed to 5.29 percent as the Hormuz standoff ripples through import costs, a war Indonesia had no part in starting, absorbed into ordinary import bills while the same government spends its speed fencing malls against imagined unrest at home.

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