President Donald Trump's top adviser Stephen Miller suggested on Fox News Tuesday evening that now the Supreme Court has struck down the executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, the administration could retaliate by prohibiting all foreign pregnant women from entering the country as a means of preventing the right from being granted.
"If you have birthright citizenship, it means that if a person comes here nine months pregnant to go look around at some things, in a couple of weeks, that is the mother of a lifetime American citizen and a direct line into cash and welfare for the rest of that child's life," said Miller.
"Are we banning pregnant women from America?" asked Fox News anchor Jesse Watters. "Are we banning foreign pregnant women?"
"Well, what I'm saying, Jesse, is that you have to now think very carefully on who you let into the country, even on a temporary basis, because of the possibility, as you said, for birth tourism, right? ... People that come here just to have babies on American soil, and that baby gets to be a citizen for life."
Ultimately, he added, "There’s a lot of things we have to take a hard look at."
Miller, a far-right anti-immigrant hardliner, is not alone in his sentiment. Sean Davis, editor at The Federalist, drew outrage earlier in the day for suggesting that women should be forcibly sterilized as a condition for admittance to the United States.