Fox News co-host Harold Ford Jr: “If you want to change birthright citizenship, I would argue there's some people who are Americans who shouldn't have — be able to have kids here either”
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From the April 2, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Five
GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): I don't think you should have to amend the Constitution at all. I don't think they were factoring in illegals coming over here to pop out babies any more they were factoring helicopters and the Kardashians. So if you were born here, it's very simple, and I think Trump is expressing the way Americans see this, that he can't even believe you're debating this. Our challenge as decent people is keeping up with corruption, keeping up with people who game the system. They're always ahead, and we sit there and go, well, maybe we should do this, maybe we should do that. No. They're taking advantage of us. If you are born here, it is not enough. The parent has to be a participant in the system. If you're here illegally, you are not participating in the system, unlike children of slaves who were participating in the system. You know, Chinese billionaires are not the same as slaves. It's kind of obvious.
DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): You had a good guest on this last night on your show talking about how — the consequences of this and what it can lead to.
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): Yeah. I'm with Greg. I see it as a fraud. You can't have the Chinese CCP flying here having a baby and flying home with a passport, and then the kid brings his family in, and then they work at the Defense Department. It's just stupid, and everybody knows it's stupid. Mexicans can't cross the border, have a baby, get welfare, wire half of it back to their families in Mexico, and think that that's constitutional. It's a loophole that needs to be closed.
And because you want to protect the country from fraud doesn't make you racist. It is a fact the people committing the birth tourism and the immigration fraud are not white. So if Americans want to prosecute that, which is illegal, it doesn't make them racist. It just means they want to have a country.
And Alito said it. He goes, we're not even prosecuting people that cross the border illegally, so they're just having babies here. If you actually could enforce the border and deport people, it wouldn't be a big of a problem.
HAROLD FORD JR. (CO-HOST): And Congress should pass a law saying 36 weeks you're pregnant, you can't come here. Your baby won't be considered a citizen.
Or if you want to change birthright citizenship, I would argue there's some people who are Americans who shouldn't have — be able to have kids here either.