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January 1, Trump Was Right Plane Birth Exposes Birthright Citizenship Chaos
Wyatt’s Take
- A woman gave birth aboard a Caribbean Airlines flight heading to New York on Friday.
- Legal experts say children born in U.S. airspace are typically granted automatic citizenship.
- Obtaining a passport requires the airline to provide exact latitude and longitude coordinates of the birth.
A routine flight from Jamaica to New York turned into a legal firestorm after a woman gave birth midair.
While the airline celebrated the safe arrival, the event reignited concerns over how easily American citizenship can be claimed.
The incident has many Americans questioning the current state of birthright laws and how they are exploited.
“If you’re born in the territory of the United States, even if it’s on an airplane, you are a citizen,” immigration attorney Cyrus D. Mehta stated.
Critics online were quick to point out that these situations feel like a shortcut to gaining legal status.
“Non-citizens know they’ll win the lottery if they can give birth while in the U.S.,” one commenter noted.
Airlines generally restrict travel for women past their 35th week of pregnancy to avoid these medical and legal complications.
A 2020 study found only 74 recorded in-flight births over a nearly ninety-year period, making this a rare but controversial event.
The U.S. Supreme Court is currently facing challenges regarding executive orders that aim to limit birthright citizenship eligibility.
Wyatt Matters
Hardworking Americans believe citizenship should be earned and protected, not handed out because of a GPS coordinate on a flight path.
This situation highlights why our borders and our laws need clear, common-sense boundaries to protect the value of being a citizen.
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Eileen
April 10, 2026 at 6:36 am
Pregnant women need to stay in their home country and not attempt to enter the USA while pregnant. Maybe the baby or mom might die enroute. Then a dead babyy is given citizenship?
Oscar herbas
April 10, 2026 at 9:50 am
You do not tell people how to live their lives
Nunya
April 10, 2026 at 12:20 pm
We might not, but it could be added to visa requirements that either you cannot fly to the US period if pregnant or that a person needs to sign that they understand that birthright Citizenship DOES NOT APPLY for their baby if born in the air, on our waters, or on land in the US. This whole 14th amendment controversy was created by “legislation from the bench”. The amendment itself was written primarily for the children of ex slaves. It very plainly states that Citizenship is afforded to those “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. When you enter the Country illegally and by staying here are in active commission of a crime against the US immigration law it is very plain to see that those people do not consider themselves to be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. They are being active in subverting those laws and breaking them!
Todd Oesterreich
April 10, 2026 at 6:45 pm
So if they’re not subject to the “jurisdiction of the United States”, then we cannot arrest/detain them?
Glenn
April 10, 2026 at 6:47 pm
No. We just shoot them.
Ron
April 11, 2026 at 1:17 am
FUCK YOU you IGNORANT dumbshit!!! Yes, we DO have every right to tell people how to live their lives!!!! We as American citizens have EVERY RIGHT to exercise our sovereignty over our country!!!!! If you think every person should be able to enter the US and do as they please, then the United States of America will very soon cease to exist as the rest of the world views it. Freedoms will disappear and chaos WILL reign. America will no longer be the “bastion of freedom” that it once was. It will be a collection of subsets of various identities who do battle against each other through warfare on the streets or (yeah, right…) through the court system. The United States of America will cease to be a location of equality and fairness and descend into a quagmire of controversy, ideology and identity. The ONLY way to stop the destruction of the US is to reinforce the laws of this country so that WE (US citizens) are the ones who have the rights granted under our founding documents (Constitution/Bill of Rights) and all other VISITORS are treated as what they are…. VISITORS….NOT citizens or even legal residents (if they have not gone through the formal process of gaining that status). As a visitor to a country, you DO NOT have any legal rights of a citizen. Check with pretty much ALL of the other countries in the world, and you’ll see that is so. Why should it be any different for the USA????
XallAnchorbabies
April 11, 2026 at 12:32 pm
The airlines do – they explicitly say women who are a certain amount of weeks pregnant are not supposed to fly. Wish they had banned this woman and if they had there would be one less anchor baby we all have to pay for!
Steve
April 10, 2026 at 7:01 am
It’s the only way they should get citizenship that way it only costs tax payers the cost of a funeral instead supporting them their entire life.
Deb
April 10, 2026 at 10:55 am
A whole article about a situation that has happened 74 times over 90 years & literally millions of flights.
Ok.
Patricia Morgan
April 10, 2026 at 12:03 pm
With the US birth rate declining i don’t understand why the objections. We need all the citizens we can get.
Roop
April 10, 2026 at 5:55 pm
But Legally. No backdoor!!
Glenn
April 10, 2026 at 6:49 pm
Agree. I have no problem with legal migration. I have a big problem with illegal alien invaders who refuse to assimilate to our culture or even learn our language, which is English.
Grammy Leslie
April 10, 2026 at 9:24 pm
Absolutely. Potential citizens need to come through ports of entry and be vetted for them to be considered legal immigrants. If they come over the border without permission, they’re illegal aliens, period! If all those illegal aliens that are murdering and raping our American citizens, those crimes most likely wouldn’t have happened if they had been vetted. In most cases, they already had criminal records and would not have been allowed entry. For these advocates, including on this forum, that say come one, come all (murderers and rapists included), please take them into your own homes and be responsible for them. Just hope that you’re still alive to tell about it. If you’re not willing to do that, then shut up. Legal = welcome, illegal = not welcome, period! It’s that simple.
madmemere
April 10, 2026 at 10:58 pm
And therein lies the problem!!
DAVID HORNUNG
April 10, 2026 at 8:43 am
This is a whole lot more complicated. What is the status of a child born to parent(s) who were born to illegal immigrants, some have been here long enough. Another idea the French have a citizenship idea, how about an American Foreign Legon?
Henry Chinery
April 10, 2026 at 9:39 am
You can already obtain citizenship by serving in the US Military, while here legally, but you still have to apply for it, it’s not automatic, which, maybe it should be(?).
The Dude
April 10, 2026 at 10:01 am
This whole article is ignorant, trying to “blame” the plane birth itself as being some unknown/unknowable loophole. Had the woman merely taken an hour longer there would not have been any question, as the baby would have been born firmly on New York City soil. The plane was totally irrelevant.There is no question that the US (at least currently) recognizes both jus soli (right of soil) and jus sanguinis (right of blood), so no question the child would have been a citizen regardless, had she “held on” until landing. Any outright removal of “born here” citizenship has no real chance of happening anytime soon (regardless of presidential executive orders). It’s in the Constitution, and a Constitutional amendment would be required to remove it. That’s a pretty high bar that I don’t see being met, especially in today’s environment.
Marta
April 10, 2026 at 10:34 am
Dude, that article in the constitution was for freed slaves! And it was established way before the rest of the world started thinking how they can get into America! Ship that woman home and when the baby turns 18, then the young adult can take his rightful place in America without the extra baggage of an illegal mother!
Roop
April 10, 2026 at 5:59 pm
AGREED!!!
Deb
April 10, 2026 at 10:54 am
A whole article about a situation that has happened 74 times over 90 years & literally millions of flights.
Ok.
Steve
April 10, 2026 at 11:11 am
except she was on a flight OWNED and operated by another country, nothing on that plane was “in America” Not on American soil, not in an American plane. Your argument about “holding on” makes zero sense, what if (just playing devils advocate here) she was in labor when the plane took off but told no one? The minute the wheels of any flight leave the ground, they become citizens of the country they are headed to? If in the air, they should become citizens of the country their parents are from.
Roop
April 10, 2026 at 6:02 pm
Agreed!
The Baby is an “AIR Citizen.” (fun intended)
AE Brown
April 10, 2026 at 12:07 pm
Better yet, the airlines should decline all pregnant passengers who are beyond seven month to delivery. No airplane is a hospital turned into a delivery room. If the baby were to die and some hotshot attorney tried to institute suit, I wonder about liability on the airline’s part for standard of care. This lady should never have been accepted for passage. No flight crew should have this responsibility forced on them. And actually no good mother would risk her child’s delivery in an airplane. Above all, if the mother wasn’t legal, then the child is not a legal citizen of the US either.
The Constitution is a tired, worn out precious document written 250years ago for those days. It desperately needs to be amended to be appropriate to today. Back then there were no airplanes, no illegal immigrants trying to enter this country. It is the very basic rule of law known as “fruit of the poisonous tree.” Status is traced to the very original point which in this case is the mother.
Glenn
April 10, 2026 at 6:52 pm
The 14th Amendment applied to freed slaves, not to everyone who wanders into our country uninvited. If you want the child who is born of illegal alien invaders to be a citizen, then fine, but the parents of said child still need to be deported. The child can stay but the parents have to go.
Norm Poisson
April 10, 2026 at 10:32 am
It’s funny how for the life of the country without a problem, it becomes a problem when someone who is critical of other races entering the country is president.
Linda
April 10, 2026 at 5:26 pm
It has nothing to do with who is president. I have always questioned the birthright citizenship
Roop
April 10, 2026 at 6:07 pm
SO FAR, NO OTHER COMMENTS ZERO IN ON “RACE.”
HOW DID THAT ENTER THE CONVERSATION???
WHY EVERY DISCUSSION INVOLVING THE USA HAD TO BE “RACE” BASED???
Todd Oesterreich
April 10, 2026 at 7:01 pm
More like the reality of Birthright Citizenship has been brought to light. Approximately 1,000,000 chinese babies have been born in the last about 7 years via the process referred to as Birthright Tourism, in 10 to 20 years the U.S. will be flooded with these CCP indoctrinated “U.S. citizens”. There is also the cases of rich Chinese oligarchs utilizing U.S. citizen women via artificial insemination or IVF, where the “U.S. Citizen offspring are raised in China. For what, $100K a pop, you got yourself a U.S. citizen. Some of these individuals are said to have fathered hundreds children this way.
Marta
April 10, 2026 at 10:43 am
Norm, I guess you have NOT listened to the phrase DEATH TO AMERICA by the Muslim world! Their culture will never fit into our culture! We want to live, they want us dead! I have listened to their rhetoric for 47 years and NO I DONT WANT MUSLIMS IN OUR GOVERNMENT OR COUNTRY! Mexico gave us INVADERS, who took our jobs, housing, food, and the lives of innocent Americas! And your comment tells me you thought the world was great under Biden! All I can say is …wow!
Steve
April 10, 2026 at 11:28 am
Marta, well said. I just got home from a year in France and I know that no other nations gives out free citizenship like we do. This has got to be the dumbest thing we do on top of opening our borders, etc. People used to come here for freedom and a better life. Now they come to live off of us get free things and they don’t want to be Americans at all. Being an American is worth thr effort to become one legally and no, the Constitution does not read all born here are citizens. That is not what the amendment was written for in the 1800s. It was to ensure former slaves would be treated as citizens after the Civil War.
Charlie
April 10, 2026 at 2:13 pm
Well said! And, everyone that fails/refuses to assimilate ends to be deported. It’s not just about birthright citizenship, it’s about turning the US into a third world country!
Roop
April 10, 2026 at 6:08 pm
WELL SAID!!!
Roop
April 10, 2026 at 6:10 pm
WISE COMMENT.
I could not put better!
Glenn
April 10, 2026 at 6:54 pm
Norm is anything but norm(al).
Libblaster
April 10, 2026 at 3:10 pm
“Birthright citizenship” is not a birthright. What most people miss is that the 14th Amendment adds a caveat to citizenship. The phrase “…and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…” means to be in the country legally. An illegal alien who gives birth in the US is not under US jurisdiction and neither is the child. We’ll see what SCOTUS has to say about it.
Steve
April 10, 2026 at 4:27 pm
Well if you look at the women guys have to choose from these days it’s no wonder the birth rate is down. Who the hell wants to procreate with a 350 pound slob with pink hair and a face that looks like a hardware store?
And birthright citizenship was put in the constitution to protect babies born to freed slaves NOT illegal shitbags.
Glenn
April 10, 2026 at 6:46 pm
It’s pretty simple – the child is a U. S. citizen, the mother is not. Therefore the child can stay but the mother has to leave. That should take care of all you people that believe an illegal alien who has a child in the U. S. is entitled to live here too. Illegal aliens have NO rights. They shouldn’t even have a right to a trial. The only right they should have is the right to get out of our country ASAP.
Todd Oesterreich
April 10, 2026 at 7:07 pm
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone argue the points you are claiming to refute. At least not on this thread.
Michael Ernest
April 11, 2026 at 4:45 pm
I presume that a pregnant foreign national with a tourist visa on a cruise ship in US territorial water would also birth a new citizen.
And how about someone on a bus from South of the border traveling to Canada “unexpectedly” gives birth on a US highway.
Is this really what the authors of the 14th amendment intended?
But people don’t realize it is so easy for a foreign national to get a tourist visa while pregnant, stay with a friend or relative, give birth in a hospital at tax payer expense, produce a new citizen with a US passport and return to the home country (maybe) and the family and who knows how many “cousins” have their entry ticket punched.