July 6, 2026 • 13 mins
The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling has reignited one of the biggest constitutional and immigration debates in America. Buck breaks down the Court's decision, why he believes it was wrongly decided, and what the Trump administration can still do to strengthen border security and enforce immigration law.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As you know, earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed
down a terrible six' to three decision on birthright citizenship
In Trump. Vye barbara AND i spent some time on
radio pulling apart all the reasons WHY i think it
was wrong and all of the disastrous consequences that it will.
Have NOW i wanted to talk about what do we do?
(00:22):
Next SO i want to be clear that's the focus of,
this and many of people be listening over the holiday.
Weekend what can we do about this now and over
the longer. Term but just by way of, Review Chief
Justice roberts wrote the majority opinion upholding a broad interpretation
(00:43):
of the Fourteenth, amendment said children born here to parents
who are here illegally or on temporary visas are still.
Citizens this is a devastating ruling for those of us
who believe in, sovereignty the rule of, law and the
original meaning and intent of The. Constitution BUT i want
to tell you this is not the end of the.
(01:05):
Fight this is just a temporary, setback And i'm going
to give you a battle plan here in two clear,
parts to try to restore our. Sovereignty part, one exactly
what this administration can and must do over the next
two years over the rest Of trump's second term in.
Office So i'm talking about the right now to tighten the,
(01:29):
border stop birth, tourism and to execute the largest deportation
Operation american. History part, Two why this, ruling like for,
Example roe. V, wade another terrible ruling by The, court
can in fact be corrected by a Stronger Supreme court
down the, Road and why that PATH i think is
(01:49):
still more realistic than a constitutional. Amendment but let's start
With part. One what we do over the next twenty four. Months,
first the border. Itself we've already seen massive progress made
In trump's second, term record manpower AT, ice detention capacity
surging past seventy thousand, beds new facilities coming. Online but
(02:10):
we have to go further and. Faster we have to
complete physical barriers where gaps remain flood the border with
proven technology like ground sensors and autonomous, DRONES ai powered
cameras and facial recognition that actually. Works expand the border
patrol and customs and protection piece of this with the
funding That congress has got to, deliver so to use
(02:32):
every lawful, tool and that includes remain In mexico being
expanded third safe or safe third country agreements with more,
nations and credible fear interviews that are actually meant to
establish that somebody has a credible, fear which is very
should be a very high. Bar it can't just be
(02:52):
my country has a high crime, rate OR i don't
like my crappy country and some people there get robbed
or some people there get. Shot has to be because
of my religion and the persecution of people of that
religion in my, country because of my political beliefs which are.
OUTSPOKEN i have been targeted for violence in my, country
(03:14):
specifically by the. Government provise that is a credible fear.
Test not my country. SUCKS i want to be in
your country. Now on birth, tourism, specifically even with the
ruling that came down this, week we can choke off
the pipeline that brings people here to have babies in
violation of our law and gain the system so at consulates.
(03:36):
Overseas we have to heighten scrutiny for visa applicants from
countries with documented patterns of birth. Tourism we've got to
train officers to look for indicators of the primary purpose
of travels to give Birth ON us soil for citizenship
and deny visas where the evidence supports that. Intent got
to publicize that new reality as. WELL A us citizen
(03:56):
child does not shield illegal immigrant parents from. Deportation if
mom and dad are here, illegally they can and will be,
removed and the child goes with them or stays with
the legal relatives, here the anchor baby incentive will lose
some of its power when enforcement is real and it is,
continuous and then the big, one mass. Deportations we're going
(04:18):
to ramp this up to the highest numbers Of america
has ever, seen surpassing even the peak of what was
Called operation wetback in nineteen fifty, four when The eisenhower
administration removed or returned over a million people in a
single year through aggressive interior enforcement and self deportation. Pressures
so here's the concrete plan for this one. Capacity we
(04:40):
have already doubled ice enforcement personnel in the first year
or so of this. Term we keep surging that we streamline,
hiring bring in more military, veterans offer retention, bonuses and
expand the two to eighty SEVEN g program so local
sheriffs and police can be trained and deputized to assist
with immigration enforcement detention capacities already climbing toward ninety to
(05:02):
one hundred thousand beds through new, facilities warehouse, conversions and expanded.
Contracts we finish that build out and keep it full
of removable, aliens no empty. Beds and then two prioritization
that actually prioritizes no more catch and release. Anywhere new
enforcement priorities that start with every criminal non citizen convicted or.
(05:25):
Charged we finish removing the backlog of, murderers, rapist gang,
members and drunk drivers, first then recent border crossers and
gutaways using expanded expedited. Removal then visa overstays using a
fully operational biometric exit. System work side enforcement becomes relentless
mandatory nationwide everify with real, teeth civil finds that bankrupt repeat,
(05:47):
offenders and criminal penalties for the worst, employers large scale
well publicized raids and agriculture, construction meat, packing, hospitality and.
Landscaping when employers can't hire illegal, labor chief deeply the
jobs go To americans and legal, workers and self deportation
also accelerates alongside all of. This then, three logistics and
(06:11):
international pressure the military provides logistical support for this, transport
temporary housing for, operations engineering without violating. Possecommatatis we dramatically
increase removal flights and ground. Repatriations we get tough with
foreign governments that slow walk travel documents or refuse their own.
Citizens we cut aid and impose targeted sanctions or, tariffs
(06:34):
and make clear that cooperation on returns is a condition
of good. Relations we already have models that. Work we
scale them for state and local muscle sanctuary. Jurisdictions got
to defund, them sue, them and prosecute officials who actively
obstruct federal. Law partner aggressively with The Red states and
Cooperative blue state, Sheriffs Let, Texas florida and other states
(06:57):
run their own interior enforcement operations and coordinate WITH. Ice
the federal government cannot do this. Alone we deputize the
willing and sideline the obstructionists five metrics and, messaging set
public ambitious targets five hundred thousand plus removals in the
first full ramp up, year scaling toward and beyond a
million per year by the second. Year track and publicize
(07:18):
those criminal, removals the work side actions and total. Removals
the way we track border. Encounters when people see real
enforcement and, consequences deterrence. Works we saw in the First trump.
Administration we're seeing it. Again crossings drop when the message is.
Credible it's not about. Cruelty it's about restoring the basic
functions of a sovereign, nation citing who enters and who.
(07:40):
Stays every criminal remove Makes american community. Safer every work
side enforcement action opens jobs for. Citizens every successful removal
reduces the incentive for the next, wave including birth. Tourism
we have the legal, authority we are building the operational,
capacity and The american people support. It congress must fully fund.
It president will use every executive. Tool this is doable
(08:03):
in the next two years if we have the. Will
i'm going to get to part two of this whole
plan here of what comes next after that terrible decision
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Now part two of this how to fight back against
that birth tourism enhancing birthright citizenship. Decision so this is
a long. Fight the first thing was that What trump
can do? Now what needs to be done? Now now
this is the long fight piece of. This so the six'
(09:29):
to three Decision on. Trump v barbara was, a loss
but it was not the clean sweep some wanted. To
portray first, Of All justice cavanaugh concurred in, the judgment
but dissented, in part reasoning more on statutory grounds than
fully embracing the majority's. Constitutional sweep that makes the majority
shakier than the headline numbers suggests more like five to
four in. Practical Effect Chief justice roberts, wrote it but
(09:51):
the cracks, are visible just as they were in other.
Big cases Remember for. Roe v wade forty nine years
it was called settled, law liberals and it. Was untouchable
originalists and constitutional scholars, kept, writing litigating and making the
case that was wrongly decided from the start, an invention
not a reading of. The text state legislators kept testing.
(10:12):
Its limits Then came dobbs in twenty, twenty two a six'
to three Decision that Overruled, Row and casey and it
Happened because the court's composition changed through elections. And presidential
appointments precedent yielded to a correct Reading. Of the constitution
the same path. Is open here the majorities reading of
subject to, the jurisdiction Thereof And the Fourteenth Amendment STRETCHES
(10:35):
united states vi wonkim arc far beyond its facts and.
The original meaning the citizenship clause was written To overturn
dread Scott and dread scott and guarantee citizenship to those
born here who owed permanent Allegiance To, the united states
not to children of foreign nationals here illegally or, on
temporary visas who owe their. Primary allegiance elsewhere serious scholars
(10:57):
have made this. Case for Years, the, Dissents yes yesterday
i'm sorry, earlier this Week joined By, gorsich and alito.
Laid the groundwork future cases will give a stronger originalist
majority the chance to. CORRECT that overbreadth a constitutional amendment
to clarify birthright citizenship requiring at least one parent to
be a citizen or a lawful permanent resident would be.
Clean and permanent but We all know article five is.
(11:19):
A high bar two thirds of Both houses of congress
and three Quarters. Of the states it, is worth pursuing
but it is. Slow and difficult judicial correction is more
likely and. Can happen faster we do hear what we.
Did on abortion keep the Scholarship rigorous support amicus efforts,
or amicus efforts pass state laws and policies that, create
(11:39):
test cases, and most importantly elect presidents and senators who
appoint judges Who read the constitution's text and history and
don't just go. For policy outcomes, keep in mind it
was not long ago that anybody who tried to break
from the so called consensus of birthright citizenship. Was, called
crazy well we just had a sixty. Three to decision it's.
(12:00):
Clearly not crazy it, wasn't nine oh and it could
have gone. The other way so that shows that there
is hope here from. A judicial standpoint and so we're
not going to. Just wait around we're not going to
just be sad about this or say that, the country's over.
Because it's not we're going to enforce the law aggressively
at the border and in the interior and reduce the
(12:21):
practical impact of this ruling by making illegal presence. Costly
and temporary we're going to build the record of the real,
world consequences, here fiscal, costs chain, migration security risks and the. Erosion,
of citizenships meaning and we keep making the constitutional argument
in public. And in court so there, is STILL hope
(12:42):
and i am still hopeful, for the country especially as
we're going into our two. And fiftieth here we have
a lot to celebrate and. Be thankful for but the
next two years on immigration are about maximum lawful pressure,
on the border maximum removals. Inside the country that work
starts now and has to continue. Every single day the
longer fight is about at storing the original meeting Of
the fourteenth amendment through a Court that, respects, TeX's history sovereignty.
(13:04):
And the law so. Do not despair we stay in
this fight. No matter what america is always, worth fighting
for and our citizenship still means something and we will fight.
For that TOO that's what i have, for, You here
friends shield tie
As you know, earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed
down a terrible six' to three decision on birthright citizenship
In Trump. Vye barbara AND i spent some time on
radio pulling apart all the reasons WHY i think it
was wrong and all of the disastrous consequences that it will.
Have NOW i wanted to talk about what do we do?
(00:22):
Next SO i want to be clear that's the focus of,
this and many of people be listening over the holiday.
Weekend what can we do about this now and over
the longer. Term but just by way of, Review Chief
Justice roberts wrote the majority opinion upholding a broad interpretation
(00:43):
of the Fourteenth, amendment said children born here to parents
who are here illegally or on temporary visas are still.
Citizens this is a devastating ruling for those of us
who believe in, sovereignty the rule of, law and the
original meaning and intent of The. Constitution BUT i want
to tell you this is not the end of the.
(01:05):
Fight this is just a temporary, setback And i'm going
to give you a battle plan here in two clear,
parts to try to restore our. Sovereignty part, one exactly
what this administration can and must do over the next
two years over the rest Of trump's second term in.
Office So i'm talking about the right now to tighten the,
(01:29):
border stop birth, tourism and to execute the largest deportation
Operation american. History part, Two why this, ruling like for,
Example roe. V, wade another terrible ruling by The, court
can in fact be corrected by a Stronger Supreme court
down the, Road and why that PATH i think is
(01:49):
still more realistic than a constitutional. Amendment but let's start
With part. One what we do over the next twenty four. Months,
first the border. Itself we've already seen massive progress made
In trump's second, term record manpower AT, ice detention capacity
surging past seventy thousand, beds new facilities coming. Online but
(02:10):
we have to go further and. Faster we have to
complete physical barriers where gaps remain flood the border with
proven technology like ground sensors and autonomous, DRONES ai powered
cameras and facial recognition that actually. Works expand the border
patrol and customs and protection piece of this with the
funding That congress has got to, deliver so to use
(02:32):
every lawful, tool and that includes remain In mexico being
expanded third safe or safe third country agreements with more,
nations and credible fear interviews that are actually meant to
establish that somebody has a credible, fear which is very
should be a very high. Bar it can't just be
(02:52):
my country has a high crime, rate OR i don't
like my crappy country and some people there get robbed
or some people there get. Shot has to be because
of my religion and the persecution of people of that
religion in my, country because of my political beliefs which are.
OUTSPOKEN i have been targeted for violence in my, country
(03:14):
specifically by the. Government provise that is a credible fear.
Test not my country. SUCKS i want to be in
your country. Now on birth, tourism, specifically even with the
ruling that came down this, week we can choke off
the pipeline that brings people here to have babies in
violation of our law and gain the system so at consulates.
(03:36):
Overseas we have to heighten scrutiny for visa applicants from
countries with documented patterns of birth. Tourism we've got to
train officers to look for indicators of the primary purpose
of travels to give Birth ON us soil for citizenship
and deny visas where the evidence supports that. Intent got
to publicize that new reality as. WELL A us citizen
(03:56):
child does not shield illegal immigrant parents from. Deportation if
mom and dad are here, illegally they can and will be,
removed and the child goes with them or stays with
the legal relatives, here the anchor baby incentive will lose
some of its power when enforcement is real and it is,
continuous and then the big, one mass. Deportations we're going
(04:18):
to ramp this up to the highest numbers Of america
has ever, seen surpassing even the peak of what was
Called operation wetback in nineteen fifty, four when The eisenhower
administration removed or returned over a million people in a
single year through aggressive interior enforcement and self deportation. Pressures
so here's the concrete plan for this one. Capacity we
(04:40):
have already doubled ice enforcement personnel in the first year
or so of this. Term we keep surging that we streamline,
hiring bring in more military, veterans offer retention, bonuses and
expand the two to eighty SEVEN g program so local
sheriffs and police can be trained and deputized to assist
with immigration enforcement detention capacities already climbing toward ninety to
(05:02):
one hundred thousand beds through new, facilities warehouse, conversions and expanded.
Contracts we finish that build out and keep it full
of removable, aliens no empty. Beds and then two prioritization
that actually prioritizes no more catch and release. Anywhere new
enforcement priorities that start with every criminal non citizen convicted or.
(05:25):
Charged we finish removing the backlog of, murderers, rapist gang,
members and drunk drivers, first then recent border crossers and
gutaways using expanded expedited. Removal then visa overstays using a
fully operational biometric exit. System work side enforcement becomes relentless
mandatory nationwide everify with real, teeth civil finds that bankrupt repeat,
(05:47):
offenders and criminal penalties for the worst, employers large scale
well publicized raids and agriculture, construction meat, packing, hospitality and.
Landscaping when employers can't hire illegal, labor chief deeply the
jobs go To americans and legal, workers and self deportation
also accelerates alongside all of. This then, three logistics and
(06:11):
international pressure the military provides logistical support for this, transport
temporary housing for, operations engineering without violating. Possecommatatis we dramatically
increase removal flights and ground. Repatriations we get tough with
foreign governments that slow walk travel documents or refuse their own.
Citizens we cut aid and impose targeted sanctions or, tariffs
(06:34):
and make clear that cooperation on returns is a condition
of good. Relations we already have models that. Work we
scale them for state and local muscle sanctuary. Jurisdictions got
to defund, them sue, them and prosecute officials who actively
obstruct federal. Law partner aggressively with The Red states and
Cooperative blue state, Sheriffs Let, Texas florida and other states
(06:57):
run their own interior enforcement operations and coordinate WITH. Ice
the federal government cannot do this. Alone we deputize the
willing and sideline the obstructionists five metrics and, messaging set
public ambitious targets five hundred thousand plus removals in the
first full ramp up, year scaling toward and beyond a
million per year by the second. Year track and publicize
(07:18):
those criminal, removals the work side actions and total. Removals
the way we track border. Encounters when people see real
enforcement and, consequences deterrence. Works we saw in the First trump.
Administration we're seeing it. Again crossings drop when the message is.
Credible it's not about. Cruelty it's about restoring the basic
functions of a sovereign, nation citing who enters and who.
(07:40):
Stays every criminal remove Makes american community. Safer every work
side enforcement action opens jobs for. Citizens every successful removal
reduces the incentive for the next, wave including birth. Tourism
we have the legal, authority we are building the operational,
capacity and The american people support. It congress must fully fund.
It president will use every executive. Tool this is doable
(08:03):
in the next two years if we have the. Will
i'm going to get to part two of this whole
plan here of what comes next after that terrible decision
From Supreme. Corporate, first our sponsor here Is. Supershore let
me tell you. Something when you sign your insurance policy
for some, brokers that's the finish, line handshake commission. Done
then you may not hear from them again until it's
time for. Anuel your business runs all, year and so
(08:25):
do the gaps and the. Risk that's Why i'm Introducing.
Supershore if your company has more than twenty five, employees
whether you're the, OWNER, cfo OR hr, manager it can
be too complex and just buy a policy. Online supersure
is the super agency built for, you license in every
state for your, business insurance and employee, benefits all with
year round support for you and your. Team at supershore dot,
(08:46):
com you can access tools like fine Print, facts which
translates your current policy in a Plan english so you
can see what's covering what's. Not plus a business value
calculator so you can estimate what your business is worth
so you know what actually needs. Protecting you to supershore
dot com slash, buck one super, agency one powerful, platform
all your policies in one, place supershort dot com slash.
Buck that's supershort dot com Slash buck paid for by
(09:08):
Super Short Insurance AGENCY, llc a licensed insurance. Agency all, Right,
Now part two of this how to fight back against
that birth tourism enhancing birthright citizenship. Decision so this is
a long. Fight the first thing was that What trump
can do? Now what needs to be done? Now now
this is the long fight piece of. This so the six'
(09:29):
to three Decision on. Trump v barbara was, a loss
but it was not the clean sweep some wanted. To
portray first, Of All justice cavanaugh concurred in, the judgment
but dissented, in part reasoning more on statutory grounds than
fully embracing the majority's. Constitutional sweep that makes the majority
shakier than the headline numbers suggests more like five to
four in. Practical Effect Chief justice roberts, wrote it but
(09:51):
the cracks, are visible just as they were in other.
Big cases Remember for. Roe v wade forty nine years
it was called settled, law liberals and it. Was untouchable
originalists and constitutional scholars, kept, writing litigating and making the
case that was wrongly decided from the start, an invention
not a reading of. The text state legislators kept testing.
(10:12):
Its limits Then came dobbs in twenty, twenty two a six'
to three Decision that Overruled, Row and casey and it
Happened because the court's composition changed through elections. And presidential
appointments precedent yielded to a correct Reading. Of the constitution
the same path. Is open here the majorities reading of
subject to, the jurisdiction Thereof And the Fourteenth Amendment STRETCHES
(10:35):
united states vi wonkim arc far beyond its facts and.
The original meaning the citizenship clause was written To overturn
dread Scott and dread scott and guarantee citizenship to those
born here who owed permanent Allegiance To, the united states
not to children of foreign nationals here illegally or, on
temporary visas who owe their. Primary allegiance elsewhere serious scholars
(10:57):
have made this. Case for Years, the, Dissents yes yesterday
i'm sorry, earlier this Week joined By, gorsich and alito.
Laid the groundwork future cases will give a stronger originalist
majority the chance to. CORRECT that overbreadth a constitutional amendment
to clarify birthright citizenship requiring at least one parent to
be a citizen or a lawful permanent resident would be.
Clean and permanent but We all know article five is.
(11:19):
A high bar two thirds of Both houses of congress
and three Quarters. Of the states it, is worth pursuing
but it is. Slow and difficult judicial correction is more
likely and. Can happen faster we do hear what we.
Did on abortion keep the Scholarship rigorous support amicus efforts,
or amicus efforts pass state laws and policies that, create
(11:39):
test cases, and most importantly elect presidents and senators who
appoint judges Who read the constitution's text and history and
don't just go. For policy outcomes, keep in mind it
was not long ago that anybody who tried to break
from the so called consensus of birthright citizenship. Was, called
crazy well we just had a sixty. Three to decision it's.
(12:00):
Clearly not crazy it, wasn't nine oh and it could
have gone. The other way so that shows that there
is hope here from. A judicial standpoint and so we're
not going to. Just wait around we're not going to
just be sad about this or say that, the country's over.
Because it's not we're going to enforce the law aggressively
at the border and in the interior and reduce the
(12:21):
practical impact of this ruling by making illegal presence. Costly
and temporary we're going to build the record of the real,
world consequences, here fiscal, costs chain, migration security risks and the. Erosion,
of citizenships meaning and we keep making the constitutional argument
in public. And in court so there, is STILL hope
(12:42):
and i am still hopeful, for the country especially as
we're going into our two. And fiftieth here we have
a lot to celebrate and. Be thankful for but the
next two years on immigration are about maximum lawful pressure,
on the border maximum removals. Inside the country that work
starts now and has to continue. Every single day the
longer fight is about at storing the original meeting Of
the fourteenth amendment through a Court that, respects, TeX's history sovereignty.
(13:04):
And the law so. Do not despair we stay in
this fight. No matter what america is always, worth fighting
for and our citizenship still means something and we will fight.
For that TOO that's what i have, for, You here
friends shield tie
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