U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) issued a sharp warning on Tuesday over birth tourism and the future of American citizenship, hours after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end automatic birthright citizenship for children born to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.
In a post on X published at 9:51 a.m. on June 30, 2026, Luna argued that the framers of the 14th Amendment never envisioned an industry built around traveling to the United States specifically to give birth, and cautioned that continued inaction would allow the country to be overrun by foreign nationals exploiting the practice. “Our Founding Fathers did not anticipate the Birth Tourism industry when they drafted the 14th Amendment. If we allow this to continue our country will be overtaken by foreign nationals. China is having a party right now,” Luna wrote.
The Supreme Court Ruling
Luna’s post came on the same day the Supreme Court issued its decision in Trump v. Barbara, the case challenging Trump’s Executive Order No. 14160, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” which the president signed on January 20, 2025. The order had sought to deny citizenship to children born in the United States if neither parent was a citizen or lawful permanent resident.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the court’s three liberal justices, ruling that children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present in the country are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. Roberts noted that the framers of the amendment defined citizenship in broad terms by design, writing that the Citizenship Clause’s language echoes common-law principles dating to before the founding, and concluded that “citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights.” Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented, with Alito writing that “the Court has made a serious mistake.”
The ruling upheld lower court decisions, including one from U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante, who had found that the executive order likely “contradicts the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and the century-old untouched precedent that interprets it.” The case had been working through the courts since early 2025, with the Trump administration appealing directly to the Supreme Court in September of that year. The justices agreed to hear the case in December, and oral arguments took place on April 1, 2026.
Luna’s Broader Stance On Immigration
Tuesday’s post is consistent with positions Luna has held throughout her time in Congress. According to her official House website, Luna has traveled to the southern border three times and “has long spoken out against illegal immigration and the human & drug trafficking that comes with it.” Her office states that she will “fight to finish the border wall, restore President Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy, and crack down on criminal illegals in America,” and notes that she “opposes amnesty as a pathway to citizenship.”
Luna has positioned herself as a consistent ally of the president on immigration enforcement throughout the current Congress, maintaining what Heritage Action has rated a 96 percent conservative voting record during her tenure.
Trump’s Response And The Push For Legislation
Following the ruling, Trump indicated he would shift his strategy from executive action to legislation. Posting on Truth Social, Trump said Congress could act where his executive order had failed. “But we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump wrote. “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!”
The decision also reignited momentum behind the SAVE America Act, which Republican leadership has moved to merge with the National Defense Authorization Act, according to reporting on congressional activity following the ruling.
Other Republicans Respond
Luna was not alone among congressional Republicans reacting to the ruling on Tuesday. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who introduced a constitutional amendment in April as a preemptive measure in case the Supreme Court “fail[ed] to address this issue correctly,” urged Americans dissatisfied with the outcome to back his proposal. “Upset with the SCOTUS decision today?” Paul wrote in an X post promoting the amendment.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) also announced he was joining the push to amend the Constitution to end what he termed “birth tourism,” arguing the language of the 14th Amendment was never intended to extend citizenship as broadly as the court ruled. “Neither the Founding Fathers, nor the authors of the 14th Amendment, nor the millions of Americans who fought and died for their country through the ages intended to establish a nation whose citizenship could so easily be purchased, whether through birth tourism of China’s communist party members or a vast border invasion enabled by faithless presidents,” Lee said. “This is the cheap and cheated citizenship the Supreme Court upholds today,” he added. “The long fight for a constitutional amendment begins now. We must explicitly exclude foreign nationals who break our laws, violate our borders, or exploit loopholes to make their families American citizens.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also weighed in on the substance of the ruling, characterizing it as a definitive interpretation of the 14th Amendment rather than a narrow procedural defeat for the administration. “This was not a decision on procedural grounds (ie, POTUS can’t do this through executive order but Congress could legislate it); it is a substantive decision that says the 14th amendment requires citizenship for those born to, among others, birth tourists or those unlawfully present in the country,” DeSantis said. “Will need either a constitutional amendment or a future court to overrule this. Anyway you slice it, the decision is a major defeat.”
What Comes Next
With the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling foreclosing the executive-order route, Republican lawmakers including Luna, Paul and Lee are now signaling that the fight over birthright citizenship will move to Congress, whether through new legislation or a constitutional amendment. Luna’s Tuesday post placed her squarely among those Republicans framing the issue as a matter of national sovereignty and a vulnerability open to exploitation by birth tourism operations, including those she suggested are tied to Chinese nationals seeking to benefit from automatic citizenship for their children.
Whether the SAVE America Act or a separate legislative vehicle becomes the primary path forward remains to be determined as the bill moves through committee alongside the broader defense authorization process.