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The Michael Knowles Show

August 10, 2026

Introducing Ep. 2481 - FINALLY: Trump ENDS Birth Tourism! from The Ben Shapiro Show.
Speakers: Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, James Talarico, Debbie Dingell, Jesse Watters

Topics: News Commentary, News

**Ben Shapiro** (0:00)
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There's no safe like SimpliSafe. President Trump just scored a major win. Yesterday, he ended birth tourism. It is long past time. Birthright citizenship has become a loophole you could drive a truck through, and President Trump just shut down one of those gigantic loopholes. Here's some of what that loophole has produced. Son Piker, birthright citizen, born in New Jersey, raised in Turkey, and now here, ready, willing, and able to destroy Western civilization. Abdul El-Sayed, his parents immigrated from Egypt. He was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He could end up as our first fully anti-Western senator. Shia Tali, born in Detroit, Michigan. Her parents came from the West Bank, Judea and Samaria. She is in Congress, stumping for the destruction of America's foundations each and every day. Francesca Hong, over in Wisconsin, who just despises America and is a birthright citizen. These are just some of the big names. Birthright citizenship has meant that people come across our border, have babies, and then are tied into the US all without ever explicitly having to embrace America in any way, shape or form. The most obvious symptom of that flaw in our system is birth tourism. That's where people come here just to have babies. Well, yesterday, President Trump moved to end it. We'll get into that. Plus, simps for radical Islam are very upset about our new movie Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels. The Democrats are fine with radical Muslims, but they do have a problem with Asian DSA ladies with crazy eyes. And I have watched the new Spider-Man and I have a few thoughts. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
Okay, so birthright citizenship is, as I've said, not mandated by the Constitution. It is not implicit in the 14th Amendment. The founders did not contemplate the idea of vast illegal immigration to the country basically because that concept did not really exist back in 1789 There's a lot of people who are coming to an open territory. Nor did the framers of the 14th Amendment in the post Civil War era consider the idea that there would be a huge tsunami of immigrants from other countries just coming here, dropping babies and receiving backdoor citizenship. And all of that, by the way, is well before the federal government was providing these gigantic government benefits. So the Supreme Court, in other words, was wrong earlier this year when it ruled that birthright citizenship was mandated by the Constitution. But it did indeed rule on that. So now the Trump administration has to do what it can within the boundaries of that decision to cut down on the exploitation of our system. Because this is a problem. There is no federal data on birth tourism, which again is kind of astonishing because we keep data on pretty much everything. But the Center for Immigration Studies estimated somewhere between 20 and 26,000 birth tourists per year back in 2020 by combining CDC birth certificates with American Community Survey data on birth to foreign women. The State Department in June 2026 uncovered birth tourism networks run out of Africa and Europe, where hundreds of foreign nationals would obtain fraudulent visa documents in order to give birth in the United States. And obviously, we've seen huge birth tourism networks ringing from China. Again, a lot of this could miss long-term undocumented or non-citizen residents who were missed by the census. And birth tourism very often acts as just the beginning. It's sort of the hook and ladder system for chain migration. It's the first link in the chain. You put a baby in the US, the baby has a right to stay, and then you make the case that the family also has to stay, and then eventually you import the rest of the extended family. Kids are very often, and this is true all over the West, the peg upon which chain migration rests. That's certainly true in Europe. Right now in Ceuta, for example, after that vast wave of Muslim migrants coming from Morocco, the miners are being sent to Spain for processing. Presumably, many of them will end up there, and then their parents will apply to enter as well. Well, in the United States, President Trump, again, it makes a difference who wins elections. I know there are tons of people on the right who are blackpilling about Trump.

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