Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Supreme Court CALLED TO ACTION by Trump Threat

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

Will a Supreme Court case from 1898 about a baby born in california to chinese parents, be the death knell for Trump’s inhumane attempts to end the ancient US principle of Birth Right citizenship under the 14th Amendment and deport US citizen children whose parents are undocumented? How soon in 2025 will the Supreme Court be dragged into this constitutional crisis? Michael Popok reports. Head to https://zbiotics.com/LegalAF to get 15% off your first order when you use LEGALAF at checkout. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're born on American soil. You're not subject to a foreign power over you. You are an American, period. That was reestablished in a case that's off-sided in civil rights circles as US versus Wong Kim Ark. I'm going to talk about the 14th Amendment. I'm going to talk about Wong Kim Ark and I'm going to talk about why Tom Homan and Donald Trump's policies are unconstitutional. It will end up before the United States Supreme Court in 2025, and I believe they'll be on the losing end.

What are they trying to do from a policy standpoint that's against the Wong Kim Arc and 14th Amendment precedent and the ancient principles of our country? They're trying to separate American citizen children born in this country from their parents who are maybe undocumented. Tom Homan did it once in the 2016-2020 period when he was the head of ICE in America, right? Speaking of ICE during winter and during holiday times, immigration and customs enforcement. Now, he's not going to be the head of ICE this time, but when he was in 2016 and 2020, for Donald Trump, Tom Homan had, I think, about 4,000 children who were separated from their parents, some of which were put in cages, we now know infamously.

And he's threatened to do it again. He says he needs $86 billion in the first 100 days in order to deport these people. And now he's gotten even more brazen and more bold, where he said to the Washington Post that it is the fault of the undocumented parents. They should have known better when they had a child in American soil that this could have happened, that they would be separated from them. Think about the heartlessness around that particular policy in trying to blame them. He said, quote, you know when you're illegal and when you have a child in this country that you're putting

them at risk, that's your fault. This is the same guy who's threatened sanctuary city mayors to jail them. We are going to quickly get to a constitutional crisis, not one, but dozens of them, under the Trump administration. And we're here for it on Legal AF and the Midas Touch Network. Now let me go back to the case and why under the 14th Amendment it says what it says and why it says what it says. Article 14th Amendment, the Citizenship Clause says that all persons born or naturalized

in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction or the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. Pretty straightforward. Where did it come from? Came from our post-Civil War era, when the newly freed slaves, now black Americans, needed to have their citizenship reestablished, reaffirmed in the Constitution, because a prior immoral constitutional decision called Dred Scott,

which is one of the, if not the stain on our American jurisprudence, it is one of these stains, written by Judge Taney, Justice Taney said that blacks are not citizens of the United States, so they needed to come up with a constitutional amendment that was passed. If you watch the movie Lincoln, you'll watch the number of these amendments being passed in real time in that particular movie. The 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment, the 16th Amendment, these are all the post-Civil War reconstruction amendments mainly addressed at making sure that the rebel southern states didn't continue to abuse now newly freed black Americans. That's the 14th Amendment. In 1898, it all came to a head in the prevailing jurisprudence in this area called US versus Wong Kim arc. That's why I said at the top of this particular hot take,

do you know who that is? Because Tom Homan does it. Here's what the ruling was in that case. That was a Chinese American, a boy who was born on American soil to Chinese parents. We're not going to get into undocumented versus documented, but they were still citizens of China and as this case recites they were subject to the Emperor of China at the time but their child was born here in America. When he was 21 he left the country to go back and visit China. When he came back in he was stopped by whatever version of border control they had in 1898 and was told that he was not allowed back into the country. He said, but I'm an American citizen.

I was born here and I'm under the 14th Amendment. And there was a whole big fight finally decided by the United States Supreme Court. Now here's what they said. Just listen to these words because that will help you understand how wrong Tom Homan and how wrong Donald Trump are. Here's what they said in the case, The Fourteenth Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory, in the allegiance and under the protection of the country, including

all children here born of resident aliens, with the exceptions or qualifications as old as the rule itself of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our country." Now some people, I'll stop there, some people only say, well, these were not resident aliens. Well, they're not using the term as documented versus undocumented. They're just saying it's somebody who lives in the country, like the undocumented, who is not a citizen, an alien. So I don't want everybody to start jumping up and down, po-bok! They're not resident aliens, these parents. They're undocumented. That's not the way this

case turns. The decision that I'm reading from, the Wong Kim Ark case continues. This is the United States Supreme Court 1898. The amendment, 14th amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born within the territory of the United States or all other persons of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection and consequently subject to the jurisdiction of the United States." See, that's another argument by Maga. They say, well, these people that are born are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof because their parents are undocumented. No, that is complete nonsense. That is just word salad. It doesn't mean anything.

These people are born here. Their parents, a lot of them are undocumented, but they're working and paying taxes. They're subject to the laws of the state. They can get arrested. They're here. So they're subject to the jurisdiction thereof as opposed to that's the contrast it with foreign diplomats who can thumb their nose. This is why they can get a million parking, million dollars worth of parking tickets.

Nobody cares when they're diplomats because they have diplomatic immunity. These people undocumented obviously don't have diplomatic immunity. They barely have any dignity of status as it is. So forget that argument, although you hear it a lot in the MAGA world. It goes on to say the following, to hold that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution excludes from citizenship the children born in the United States of citizens or subjects of other countries would be to deny citizenship to thousands of persons of English, Scotch, Irish, German, and other European parentage who have always been considered and treated as citizens of the United States.

See, it's not just white person privilege. They were applying it here for this Chinese American. Justice Gray, who wrote for the court that emphasized that Congress cannot affect U.S. citizenship acquired under the Constitution, and that's an important distinction here because no other branch, the executive branch can't, the legislative branch can't, no other branch can affect the citizenship that is automatically bestowed upon a person here in the United States born on American soil. Period.

Here's what the court had to say about that. Congress having no power to abridge the rights conferred by the Constitution upon those who have become naturalized citizens by virtue of acts of Congress, a force or ari, to no act or admission of Congress as to providing for the naturalization of parents or children of a particular race can affect citizenship acquired as a birthright. This is why we call it birthright citizenship. It is bestowed on you by birth on American soil, nothing that Congress, nothing that the President, nothing that executive action or orders or Tom Holman can do about it.

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be voting for it were born in this country giving them citizenship? I mean, I assume, I mean, I'll just say it out loud. I assume my grandfather who came over here in 1906 through Ellis Island eventually obtained proper documented status. I have another grandfather who lived in the Lower East Side and a shtetlk also came through Ellis Island. I think they were sort of naturalized on the way in. And so when my father was born here, the first Popak to be born on US soil, he was automatically, of course, an American citizen. But that made him an American citizen,

regardless of the status of my grandparents. They could have been undocumented. There might have been an eye missed and an eye that wasn't dotted and a T that wasn't crossed on Ellis Island, I don't know. I hope not, I don't think so. But it doesn't matter because my dad was born here, my mom was born here, and I was born here. And that makes us American citizens and naturalized American citizens and natural born Americans so that we could run for the presidency, even if my grandfather couldn't. And so when you hear comments made by the Tom Homans and the Donald Trumps of the world about ending birthright citizenship. That is an attack on your people in our audience, in your lineage, in your family tree.

Go look at your family tree. I don't care what side of the political aisle you're on now. Go look at your family tree and tell me how much of it is dependent on somebody having been born in this country and given the blue passport, right? And your success and your fortunes and how your life would have changed, right? The trajectory of your life would have changed had that person, whoever that first person was, wasn't born on American soil.

Now I know there's people that are, oh well, it's birth tourism. They're coming here to drop babies to get American citizenship. I mean, there is a group that does that. I'm not going to say it doesn't exist. But that's the tale. It shouldn't be wagging the dog of our policy because there's people that try to exploit a loophole. All right. I understand why they want to give birth to an American child. I get it. But to say these are anchor babies that are keeping these other families in fine, and let me just speak directly and plainly.

We as an American people, a country that's founded the way our country was founded, and with a statue that sits in the harbor, the Statue of Liberty that talks about, give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. We as an American people have an obligation to the rest of the world to figure our shit out and figure our immigration policy out and come up with a dignified immigration policy

that unites and doesn't separate families where a child was born here. There has to be a way to process those family members and have them stay in America, not leave the country and return a child who's an American citizen, who I'm standing up for here on this hot take, and return into a country they've never known. They are an American citizen and I will protect them and their right to remain here and have an American life

with my last breath, as should everyone who considers themselves to be an American. There's no other way to put it. We owe it to ourselves, to our generations, to our own ethics and values, and our own – the core principles of constitutional republic upon which we are based to figure it out and come up with a way to have a dignified immigration policy. When we have one, we make loyal Americans who, like my wife, cry when the national anthem is played because she was naturalized in this country. Not because of me, just for those that might be

speculating. She already had her US citizenship when we met, but she came through the green card lottery. She was lucky enough to come through the green card lottery. And do you know how devoted my wife is to being an American, to being a patriot? There is nobody who's a, you might be as equal to my wife, but there is nobody who's a bigger patriot,

a bigger lover of this country, more respectful of this country and what it gave to her than my wife. We need more of that, not less. We don't need to have people hiding in the shadows in the alleys living with one eye open with a backpack just in case Tom Homan stormtroopers come through the front door. I've met people who have gone through a dignified immigration policy primarily before 1980 in the United States who got their green cards in the mail from their home country and then

came in and became hardworking business owners, entrepreneurs, taxpayers, civil servants, teachers, doctors, business owners, and the like, lawyers, judges. And then there's this other group that come here because of economic crisis in their own countries, because drug cartels are ready to slit their throats or their children's throats on the way to school, they want a better life the way that my grandfather, my both my grandfather's wanted a better life

after being chased by Cossacks and Nazis in Germany and in Europe. And they came to this country. We should be a bigger group of people and recognize the value that they are making to our society. Say goodbye to undocumented, say goodbye to half of what you see in the produce department at a supermarket. Say goodbye to some of your, a lot of your chicken, poultry,

a lot of your factories that manufacture construction workers, people that work in trades. Say goodbye to all of them. They're not going to be replaced by Americans. We're already at an almost full capacity in this country. Tom Homan never went to law school, doesn't understand constitutional law, neither does Donald Trump, neither does his incoming attorney general, Pam Bondi, who never served, who never worked in that area. She's always a state person. All right. Now we're going to end up at the United States Supreme Court in 2025. You're going to end up here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. I got a new show, PO-POK Live, 8 p.m. Eastern Time, on Tuesdays on this particular YouTube channel. And then I have a new YouTube channel that I curate called Legal AF is exactly what you think. It's at the

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