Ending Federal DEI Programs and Birthright Citizenship. Definitely Steps in the Right Direction
Re the new Trump administration, I know that I am on the optimistic end of dissident thinkers, but some very promising things are happening. Like ending DEI programs in the federal government and putting all the parasites and anti-White activists who run them on leave. And deporting the illegals. And ending birthright citizenship. All of this will be bitterly contested in the courts by the Democrats (who see all non-Whites as potentially part of their coalition of the aggrieved), but the fact that there is a conservative majority on SCOTUS is definitely a plus. Birthright citizenship should have been contested long ago. It’s not at all obvious that it is embedded in the Constitution and very few other countries do it. Here’s an argument posted on Fox News from 2011:
The 14th Amendment doesn’t say that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens. It says that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” are citizens. That second, critical, conditional phrase is conveniently ignored or misinterpreted by advocates of “birthright” citizenship.
Critics erroneously believe that anyone present in the United States has “subjected” himself “to the jurisdiction” of the United States, which would extend citizenship to the children of tourists, diplomats, and illegal aliens alike.
But that is not what that qualifying phrase means. Its original meaning refers to the political allegiance of an individual and the jurisdiction that a foreign government has over that individual.
The fact that a tourist or illegal alien is subject to our laws and our courts if they violate our laws does not place them within the political “jurisdiction” of the United States as that phrase was defined by the framers of the 14th Amendment.
This amendment’s language was derived from the 1866 Civil Rights Act, which provided that “[a]ll persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power” would be considered citizens.
Sen. Lyman Trumbull, a key figure in the adoption of the 14th Amendment, said that “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. included not owing allegiance to any other country.
As John Eastman, former dean of the Chapman School of Law, has said, many do not seem to understand “the distinction between partial, territorial jurisdiction, which subjects all who are present within the territory of a sovereign to the jurisdiction of that sovereign’s laws, and complete political jurisdiction, which requires allegiance to the sovereign as well.”
In the famous Slaughter-House cases of 1872, the Supreme Court stated that this qualifying phrase was intended to exclude “children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.” This was confirmed in 1884 in another case, Elk vs. Wilkins, when citizenship was denied to an American Indian because he “owed immediate allegiance to” his tribe and not the United States.
American Indians and their children did not become citizens until Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. There would have been no need to pass such legislation if the 14th Amendment extended citizenship to every person born in America, no matter what the circumstances of their birth, and no matter who their parents are.
Even in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, the 1898 case most often cited by “birthright” supporters due to its overbroad language, the court only held that a child born of lawful, permanent residents was a U.S. citizen. That is a far cry from saying that a child born of individuals who are here illegally must be considered a U.S. citizen.
Of course, the judges in that case were strongly influenced by the fact that there were discriminatory laws in place at that time that restricted Chinese immigration, a situation that does not exist today.
The court’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment as extending to the children of legal, noncitizens was incorrect, according to the text and legislative history of the amendment. But even under that holding, citizenship was not extended to the children of illegal aliens—only permanent, legal residents.
It is just plain wrong to claim that the children born of parents temporarily in the country as students or tourists are automatically U.S. citizens: They do not meet the 14th Amendment’s jurisdictional allegiance obligations. They are, in fact, subject to the political jurisdiction (and allegiance) of the country of their parents. The same applies to the children of illegal aliens because children born in the United States to foreign citizens are citizens of their parents’ home country.
Federal law offers them no help either. U.S. immigration law (8 U.S.C. § 1401) simply repeats the language of the 14th Amendment, including the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
The State Department has erroneously interpreted that statute to provide passports to anyone born in the United States, regardless of whether their parents are here illegally and regardless of whether the applicant meets the requirement of being “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. Accordingly, birthright citizenship has been implemented by executive fiat, not because it is required by federal law or the Constitution.
We are only one of a very small number of countries that provides birthright citizenship, and we do so based not upon the requirements of federal law or the Constitution, but based upon an erroneous executive interpretation. Congress should clarify the law according to the original meaning of the 14th Amendment and reverse this practice.
Trump Administration Directs All Federal DEI Employees Be Put on Leave
According to the memo, federal agencies are required to cancel all DEI-related training programs and terminate any contractors involved in the initiatives.
Agencies were required to compile a list of federal DEI offices and staff working in those offices as of Nov. 5, 2024, and to submit a plan for executing a “reduction-in-force action” against those workers to the OPM by Jan. 31.
The memo also asks for a list of any contract or position descriptions that were changed after the Nov. 5 election “to obscure their connection” to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs. This list must be submitted no later than Jan. 31.
Trump’s executive order criticized the former Biden administration for forcing “illegal and immoral discrimination programs” into virtually “all aspects” of the federal government through DEI initiatives.
It stated that “nearly every federal agency and entity submitted Equity Action Plans to detail the ways that they have furthered DEIs infiltration of the federal government” following Biden’s previous directive.
“The public release of these plans demonstrated immense public waste and shameful discrimination. That ends today,” the order stated.
Trump’s order directs the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Attorney General, and the director of the OPM to terminate “all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.”
The order mandates that federal agencies terminate all offices and positions related to environmental justice, as well as any equity-focused action plans, grants, and contracts within 60 days of the order’s issuance.
It also requires agencies to compile a list of grantees that received federal funding to implement DEI and environmental justice programs since Jan. 20, 2021, and federal contractors who have provided DEI training to their employees.
“We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based,” Trump said in his address. “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.”
These included, among others, Biden’s Executive Order 14035 “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce;” Executive Order 14091 “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government;” Executive Order 13985 “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government;” and several of Biden’s orders for “Advancing Educational Equity” regarding various racial groups.
Thank God. Awesome.
Still think Disparate Impact is still in effect though.
Also, thought some affirmative action predated LBJ.
Trump and Elon Musk understand that the brown and black parasites survive in America by the Federal government taxing White people and using the money to sustain the blacks/browns. This is why Trump is now advocating for abolishing the income tax. Trump/Musk understand that the only purpose of the Federal government is to protect against foreign threats by waging military and economic war against foreign nations. Thus, the only purpose of the Federal government is to use Tariffs to fund the military and the department of the Federal government responsible for waging economic war on foreign nations via economic sanctions and tariffs. Thus, Trump/Musk are going to shut down the Department of Education and make it the responsibility of each State to fund and regulate education in their own local land. States that are mostly White will no longer be Federally taxed, with their income being stolen from them and handed over to black/brown parasites in other States. Once Trump/Musk privatizes all Federal government assets such as the Post Office, public roads, infrastructure, etc., then either each state will publicly pay for these things locally, and/or private companies will. No more taxing White people to keep the blacks/browns alive. As all the Whites isolate themselves in almost all White States, all their money will thus be used just to help their own White race. Eventually, 50% of the American States will become 100% black/brown/yellow/jews, and the other half will be 100% White. The black/brown/yellow/jews states will collapse with all its inhabitants dying off. Whites will then take over those lands and repopulate it with White people. Trump/Musk knows this.
Currently in my city, they are running a lot of advertisements saying that Trump/Musk is about to cancel the free welfare health insurance (Medicaid) of all the browns/blacks, and if America’s citizens don’t stop this from happening, all the browns/blacks will die off. The blacks/browns know their time is up, they know it’s time for them to go back to their own indigenous lands. They know that Whites are finally standing up for themselves.