DeSantis weighs in on SCOTUS birthright citizenship case: ‘Cheapens the process’

By: Liv Caputo

Outlets: Florida Phoenix

Published: April 1, 2026

Words: 591

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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As the nation’s highest court weighs whether to greenlight Trump’s citizenship ban for certain U.S.-born babies, Gov. Ron DeSantis argued Wednesday that traveling to America to give birth “cheapens” the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.

“I don’t think [Reconstruction-era lawmakers] intended someone to just come here on a visit who’s foreign, have a kid, then go back, and then that kid becomes an American citizen,” DeSantis said during a press conference in The Villages. “That …

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