Samuel Alito is so full of shit. Not in the legal sense, I’m not competent to make that judgement, but the way he completely ignores reality when discussing the consequences of his positions. In his Trump v Barbara dissent he writes:

…the 14th amendment confers citizenship on only those children who, at birth, owe allegiance solely to this country.

Respecting this interpretation would not require uprooting the millions of children who were born here to mothers who entered or remained in this country illegally…some members of this group have lived here for years, and they have a strong moral claim to be able to remain inthe land where they grew up.

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For these reasons, the original meaning of the 14th amendment does not require inhumane results, and we should not adopt an erroneous interpretation of the 14th amendment simply out of fear of the consequences of “rocking the boat” or as a reaction to current immigration policy.

This has to be one of the more two faced things I’ve read in a SCOTUS opinion. Why, exactly, does Alito think the Trump administration wants to deny the children of illegal immigrants citizenship? What does he think the administration would have done had they won? Proceeded in good faith, carefully weighing the merits of individual cases and allowing long time American resident children of illegals to stay?

How stupid does Alito think we are?

Had Trump won this decision the first call would have been to Homan and Miller to start coordinating deportation campaigns against newly non-citizen children of illegal immigrants. It would have meant kids of all ages getting sent to countries they’ve never lived in and in many cases don’t speak the language, maybe with their parents, maybe not (the administration certainly hasn’t been shy about sending people to wherever would take them regardless of the deportee’s country of origin). Any notion that this process would be done humanely and judiciously belies everything we have seen in the past two years from the Trump administration on immigration policy. You think Stephen Miller would miss a chance like this to terrorize migrant communities? Tell me another one Sam, I’m not laughing hard enough yet.