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Fox News’ Jesse Watters slammed the Supreme Court for not “protecting us” after its new birthright citizenship ruling.

During the Tuesday, June 30, episode of Fox News‘ The Five, the 47-year-old co-host weighed in on the Supreme Court’s upholding of birthright citizenship. The determination, in line with the judicial interpretation of the 14th Amendment, rejects President Donald Trump‘s government order declaring that the youngsters of unlawful or momentary immigrants are not American residents.

Watters said he was “angry” about SCOTUS’ determination and agreed with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who voted against upholding birthright citizenship and claimed that the ruling “devalues and degrades U.S. citizenship.” The co-host went on to declare that the ruling does not “protect” U.S. residents from enemies who need to use “migration as a weapon against us.”

Watters said in his heated response to the ruling, “I’m angry. Alito said we blew it. He said in his dissent this was one of the most important cases the Court’s ever seen, and we blew it.

Watters continued, “He and Thomas have been mainly like, ‘Yeah, this devalues and degrades U.S. citizenship because it opens it up for anchor infants and for delivery vacationers.”

Watters continued to explain, “Now, the Chinese Communists might take their pregnant spouse to Guam, have a child, fly the child back to Beijing with a U.S. passport, and then that child, when he is older, can get U.S. welfare, he can vote, technically, when he is 35, he can grow to be President of the United States.

He went on, “That’s the stupidest thing anyone ever thought of! Literally, the guy, the senator, who put this out in the 19th Century, said it shouldn’t involve foreigners, aliens, or families of ambassadors; everybody agreed at the time. The guy that sponsored it, the guy that initiated it, the architect of this 14th Amendment, the AEG, the president at the time, Grant, all said, ‘Yeah, no foreigners, no visitors.'”

Watters added, “Well, this was also before airplanes, so no one could imagine enemies of the United States flying here to have babies that 18 years later they could use against us, sway elections, soak up welfare, and then steal our defense technology. Because that’s what they do. They steal it. So, I’m annoyed, and they’re using migration as a weapon against us, and the Court didn’t protect us, and the Democrats are in cahoots with this.”

He concluded, “They like it because they like it for money and power. So, obviously, we have to agree with the Court’s decision. Congress is not going to do anything about it, and I think the DOJ has to ramp up prosecutions of birth tourism fraud, and Trump’s got to deport even more.”

Co-host Dana Perino interjected, “Keep the border sealed,” before the panel’s only Democrat, Harold Ford Jr., added that “citizenship is being manipulated and used in ways it shouldn’t,” but that we must “go to Congress” to repair it.

In the main dissent, Thomas wrote that he disagreed with the bulk’s opinion on birthright citizenship. He claimed that the court ignored evidence from Reconstruction debates suggesting that citizenship depended on a particular person’s nearer ties to the nation.

“The Citizenship Clause was enacted for people who were born in this country and called it home. It was enacted for freed slaves such as Dred Scott, who had ‘a domicile’ here and therefore were entitled to sue as citizens,” Thomas wrote in his dissent.

Meanwhile, Roberts wrote for the court, “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,'” citing congressional debate over the modification, “We keep that promise today.”

“We break no new ground today,” Roberts added on the bench as he read the court’s majority opinion.

The deputy attorney common’s workplace circulated a memo hours after the Supreme Court’s ruling directing prosecutors to “prioritize the investigation and prosecution” of fraudulent “birth tourism” schemes.

The Trump administration pointed to “birth tourism” networks that organized non-U.S. residents to come to the nation solely to give delivery. The memo acknowledged that while many such instances are charged as visa fraud, prosecutors ought to also take into account whether or not other legal guidelines apply, including wire fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identification theft, according to AP.

“Together, we will bring illegal birth tourism to an end and those responsible to justice,” the memo acknowledged.

Trump called the Supreme Court’s determination “too bad for our Country,” but that Congress might “easily” handle it with laws.

He wrote on Truth Social that “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!”