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Parsing Immigration Policy: Birthright Citizenship Analysis Ahead of Supreme Court Decision

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Politics, News

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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As the nation awaits a potentially landmark Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship, the latest episode of Parsing Immigration Policy features renowned legal scholar Richard Epstein for an in-depth discussion of the constitutional, historical, and legal arguments surrounding the issue. Epstein, emeritus professor at the New York University School of Law and the University of […]

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0:00.0

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States, undetected, undocumented, unchecked,

0:10.0

and complete the dang fence.

0:13.0

This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.

0:18.0

Can't stone your bucket where you are. We come from France.

0:21.6

And I am, you know, adamantly again, illegal immigrant.

0:25.6

They're coming in by the thousands.

0:27.6

Just unbelievable.

0:28.6

A wall is an immorality.

0:30.6

Who are you rooting for it?

0:32.6

Those masters of the universe are added again.

0:36.6

They're not sending their best you

0:40.3

maniac you blow it up welcome to parsing immigration policy the podcast of the

0:49.1

Center for Immigration Studies my name is Mark Precorian executive director of the

0:53.7

center and today we have a distinguished

0:55.9

guest, Richard Epstein, to talk about birthright citizenship. Professor Epstein's a professor at NYU

1:03.1

law school, an emeritus professor at University of Chicago Law School, and a senior fellow at the

1:09.1

Civitas Institute at UT, Austin. And he's written a variety

1:13.4

of books on a whole bunch of subjects. But what's relevant to us is that he has weighed in in a

1:20.3

significant way on the issue of birthright citizenship. He's written an amicus brief for the

1:26.6

Supreme Court decision that was argued last month that we had a kind of a pregame podcast on at the time.

1:35.0

And he has a book out, which is supposed to be coming out, I guess, in a week or two, called The Myth of Birthright Citizenship,

1:43.7

what the 14th Amendment really says from Encounterbooks.

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