Published July 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM ET · Updated July 5, 2026 at 12:36 PM ET
Rand Paul targets birth-tourism loophole; Kinzinger renews AR-15 ban push
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Senator Rand Paul is pushing to close a loophole tied to birth tourism, where nonresidents travel to the United States to give birth and secure citizenship for their children. Former Representative Adam Kinzinger is separately reviving calls to ban AR-15 rifles. The items appeared together in a single aggregator post.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Birth tourism involves children born on US soil to foreign nationals who enter briefly to give birth. Under United States v. Wong Kim Ark, a child born here to noncitizen parents domiciled in the United States is a citizen at birth, and Trump v. Barbara extended that to children of parents lawfully but only temporarily present. Denying citizenship to those children to close the loophole would conflict with that rule.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
Vote: 6-2 (Justice McKenna took no part) · Opinion: Justice Horace Gray
A child born in the United States to parents of Chinese descent who, at the time of his birth, were subjects of the Emperor of China but had a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, were carrying on business here, and were not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity of the Chinese government, becomes at birth a citizen of the United States under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Trump v. Barbara 609 U.S. ___ (2026) (slip opinion; U.S. Reports page not yet assigned)
Vote: 6-3 on invalidity of EO 14160; 5-4 on the Fourteenth Amendment ground · Opinion: Chief Justice John Roberts
Children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully present or lawfully but temporarily present are born 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Citizenship Clause. Executive Order 14160 is invalid. Roberts's opinion treated 'jurisdiction' as satisfied by amenability to U.S. law, reaffirmed Wong Kim Ark as declaratory of the common-law rule inherited from Calvin's Case, and grounded the Clause in the repudiation of Dred Scott.
Precedent facts from the PW Law Library — primary-source verified & independently audited
