埃里克·施密特提出行政、立法和宪法补救措施以封堵第14修正案漏洞
2026年7月2日 美国东部时间上午11:29 / 福克斯新闻
“这太疯狂了”：施密特就出生地公民权裁决发出与中共相关的安全担忧警告
密苏里州共和党参议员埃里克·施密特警告称，最高法院有关第14修正案的裁决忽视了来自中国的关键国家安全担忧，他正推动一项宪法修正案和法案以解决这一问题。
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【福克斯新闻独家报道】：在一众共和党人对最高法院怒声谴责之际，一位共和党参议员正就最高法院这一重磅的出生地公民权裁决发出国家安全后果警告。
密苏里州共和党参议员埃里克·施密特担心，法院以6票对3票作出的裁决会让美国容易受到威胁，尤其是来自中国的威胁。在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，他解释了议员们和政府可以采取的多步骤途径来解决这一问题。
“我希望推动此事完成，因为我真的相信我们国家的未来岌岌可危，”施密特说。“我们不能让中国将军送他们的妻子来美国生子，然后回国待18年再回来成为美国公民。这太疯狂了。”
【阿利托警告最高法院犯下了可能产生国家安全后果的“严重错误”】
2025年9月16日，在华盛顿国会山举行的参议院司法委员会听证会上，密苏里州共和党参议员埃里克·施密特就座询问联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔。（法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
虽然一些议员呼吁通过宪法修正案，另一些则推动立法，但施密特两方面都在推进。他认为，总体而言存在“短期、中期和长期解决方案”。
“短期方案是行政行动，中期方案是我们可以采取的立法行动，而长期解决方案则是宪法修正案，”施密特说。“我认为我们应该全力推进所有这些方案。”
他表示，抵消法院裁决的最明确途径是通过宪法修正案，但立法可能是更现实的途径。他还正遵循最高法院大法官布雷特·卡瓦诺留下的思路来推进此事。
“国会可以——符合第14修正案的规定——修改或以其他方式制定新法律，为非法或暂时在美国境内的外国公民所生的子女设立出生地公民权例外条款，”卡瓦诺在法院裁决中写道。“但国会尚未采取这一行动。”
施密特的法案将澄清第14修正案的措辞。法院将该条款中“受其管辖”的措辞解释为实际上所有在美国出生的儿童都会自动获得公民身份。
他的计划是修改措辞，加入“不受外国势力管辖”，他认为这将使第14修正案回归其原本意图，并防止外国对手悄无声息地获得公民身份。
图为配备DF-ZF高超音速滑翔飞行器的DF-17东风中程弹道导弹，在中国人民共和国成立70周年阅兵式上展示。（佐娅·鲁西诺娃/塔斯社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
“这将回归法院所曲解的原本含义，我认为这将为推翻该裁决提供机会，因为国会已经澄清了这一点，”施密特说。
但和参议院几乎所有立法提案一样，60票的阻挠议事门槛是一道障碍。
这意味着施密特或任何推动出生地公民权相关法案的共和党人，都需要民主党人的支持才能通过法案。
施密特援引前参议院多数党领袖哈里·里德1993年提出的《移民稳定法案》作为例证，该法案除其他内容外，试图修改第14修正案，以防止非法移民在美国所生的子女获得公民身份，这表明民主党人曾一度支持他和共和党人正在推动的举措。
“就在不久前，哈里·里德还提出过处理这一问题的立法，”他说。“所以，你知道，民主党人会不会是从拜登时代吸取了教训的政党？当时他们推行开放边境政策，放任1500万至2000万非法入境者留在美国？”
“他们不相信我们可以决定谁能入境、谁能离境的主权，”施密特继续说道。“他们就是这样的政党吗？还是他们会转向更贴合美国民众立场的方向？”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道负责报道美国参议院的撰稿人。
‘It’s insane’: GOP senator says Supreme Court birthright ruling hands China a citizenship loophole
Eric Schmitt outlines executive, legislative and constitutional remedies to close the 14th Amendment loophole
July 2, 2026 11:29am EDT / Fox News
‘It’s insane’: Schmitt warns of CCP-linked security concerns after birthright decision
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., warned that the Supreme Court’s decision on the 14th Amendment ignored key national security concerns from China, and he is pushing an constitutional amendment and bill to fix the problem.
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FIRST ON FOX:In the midst of a blitz of Republicans shaking their fists at the Supreme Court, one Senate Republican is warning of national security consequences for the court’s bombshell birthright citizenship decision.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., worries that the court’s 6-3 decision leaves America vulnerable to threats, particularly from China. In an interview with Fox News Digital, he explained a multistep path that lawmakers and the administration could take to tackle the issue.
“I want to get this done because I really believe that the future of our country is on the line,” Schmitt said. “We can’t have Chinese generals sending their wives to this country to give birth and going back for 18 years and coming back and being citizens. It’s insane.”
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Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., questions FBI Director Kash Patel during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 16, 2025.(AFP via Getty Images)
While some lawmakers want a constitutional amendment and others are pushing legislation, Schmitt has a foot in both camps. He contended that in all, there is “a short-term, medium-term and long-term solution.”
“The short-term is executive action, the medium-term is our legislative action that we could take, and then the long-term solution is the constitutional amendment,” Schmitt said. “I think we should pursue all of those.”
The clearest shot to counter the court’s decision would be through a constitutional amendment, but legislation may be the more realistic route, he said. He’s following the breadcrumb trail left by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to do it, too.
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“Congress could — consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment — amend or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country,” Kavanaugh wrote in the court’s decision. “But Congress has not yet done so.”
Schmitt’s legislation would clarify the language of the 14th Amendment. The court interpreted the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” within the text to effectively mean all children born in the U.S. are automatically granted citizenship.
His plan is to modify the language to include “not subject to a foreign power,” which he contended would return the 14th Amendment to its original intent and prevent foreign adversaries from quietly scoring citizenship.
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“That would get back to what the meaning was supposed to be, that the court got wrong, which would give us the opportunity, I think, for potentially the decision to be overturned, because Congress has clarified it,” Schmitt said.
But, like nearly every legislative push in the Senate, the 60-vote filibuster threshold is a barrier.
That means that Schmitt, or any Republican pushing a bill dealing with birthright citizenship, will need Democratic support to pass.
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Schmitt pointed to the late former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill from 1993, the Immigration Stabilization Act, which among other things sought to tweak the 14th Amendment to prevent children of illegal immigrants born in the U.S. from gaining citizenship, as a marker that at one point, Democrats supported the same thing he and Republicans are pushing for.
“It wasn’t that long ago that Harry Reid actually had legislation to deal with this issue,” he said. “And so, you know, are the Democrats going to be a party that learned their lesson from the Biden years where they were open borders and they let 15 to 20 million people here illegally?”
“They don’t believe in sovereignty that we can tell people who can come and who can go,” Schmitt continued. “Is that who they are, or are they gonna make a shift more towards where the American people are at?”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.