'Is in America because of birthright citizenship': Walsh slams Stephen Miller's immigration stance

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh ripped into White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller's anti-immigration stance, calling it a double standard. "Stephen Miller is in America because of birthright citizenship, the 14th Amendment protection he now wants stripped from others. His own family came here fleeing persecution, the kind of refugee story he now treats with suspicion and cruelty," he wrote on X.

Walsh, who registered as a Democrat in 2025, did not stop at that. "Then other family members followed, through the same family-based immigration system he attacks as 'chain migration. When it was his family, it was the American dream. When it is someone else’s family, he wants the door slammed shut," he concluded, noting how he was able to obtain Miller’s personal immigration history through PAXIS— an app that guides people through the immigration system designed to "confuse, intimidate, and trap" them.

The 64-year-old is among the most vocal critics of the Trump administration, repeatedly criticizing its policies and figures within the establishment. His post came in response to a video of Miller claiming that he wants to end birthright citizenship. That goal appears unlikely to happen soon, after the Supreme Court recently blocked the federal government's attempt to limit birthright citizenship, ruling that President Donald Trump's January 2025 executive order violated the Constitution's 14th Amendment.

As per the 14th Amendment, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The court, in a 5-4 ruling, contended that "children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause."

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, along with the court’s three liberal justices, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority ruling. Miller, who is also the Homeland Security Adviser, called the judgment a deep knife wound in the heart of the American republic. "Just physically being on U.S. soil does not make you a citizen or qualify to carry on the inheritance of this country," he told Fox News in an interview.

Trump also criticized the ruling as "too bad" for the country, but he offered a solution. "We can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process. No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!" he declared on Truth Social.