Our family left Cuba 62 years ago this week.  We eventually got to the U.S. two months later, after waiting in Jamaica to gain legal permission for entry.  I had many conversations with my parents about their decision to leave Cuba.  We never had a conversation about birthright citizenship.  My parents left us in 2015 and 2021, and I guarantee you that they would not understand this Supreme Court decision about birthright citizenship.  They both followed the law to come here and become U.S. citizens.  Again, they would have never understood granting citizenship to someone who did it the wrong way.

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This issue now goes from lawbooks to political campaigns.  My guess is that some Democrats will have difficulty explaining birthright citizenship to real people who don’t get birth tourism or crossing the border to have their baby.

Maybe we can start by passing the Reid law, based on that 1993 proposal by the late Senator Harry Reid.  Remember him?  He is the one who said that Mitt Romney did not pay his taxes.  Once upon a time, he was against birthright citizenship, and it’s time to go “full Reid” on the issue.  This is what he said: “How about offering an award for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that.”

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Watch this video from those days when Democrats had common sense:

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Yes, let’s go full Reid and turn this issue into a campaign issue.  In the meantime, let’s continue to enforce border enforcement and stop people from coming in the first place.  The DOJ should aggressively target birth tourism.

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