In America, if your mother is on American soil when she gives birth, you, the new baby, instantly receive the extraordinary gift of being an American citizen.  This is true even if your mother is in America illegally or just stopped over for a vacation — especially a vacation to give birth in America.  And there's your birthright citizenship.

President Trump, as part of his general crackdown on the dilution and degradation of American citizenship, plans to make it tougher to take advantage of America's lax birthright laws:

The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to crack down on foreign nationals who visit the United States with the explicit intention to give birth, taking advantage of the country's birthright citizen laws.

President Donald Trump is expected to roll out changes to visa requirements in the coming days in order to stifle the "birth tourism" industry, in which many pregnant women from across the world enter the U.S. to give birth, according to administration officials who spoke with Axios. The proposals would be the latest in the administration's efforts to clamp down on abuse of the U.S. immigration system.

Every year, tens of thousands of foreign visitors enter the U.S. and give birth, taking advantage of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which gives automatic citizenship to anyone born on American soil. While it's difficult to calculate the exact amount, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates this number to be around 33,000 a year.

Even as the internationalists imagine a sort of one-world citizenship, with the little people milling from country to country in order to obtain the best welfare benefits, President Trump keeps advancing an old-fashioned notion: citizenship matters.  It confers benefits and burdens unique to the country issuing citizenship and shouldn't be handed out like cheap thumb drives at a trade show.

Trump is both the leader of and the response to a wave of patriotism — or, as the left sneeringly refers to it "nationalism" — sweeping across the world, most recently in Britain with Brexit.  Eighty-one years after World War II began, people are figuring out that patriotism, standing alone, is not toxic or dangerous.  People who do not have pride in their country and their traditions are vulnerable to predatory people and ideas.

Healthy patriotism becomes dangerous only when it is combined with hatred for the other and greed for what the other possesses.  Indeed, watching the rise of white nationalism, a little bit here, and a lot in Germany, it's apparent that if you deny people healthy patriotism, that seemingly innate yearning to love one's country will go underground, where it becomes perverted and dangerous.