By Ike Mgbatogu
Staff Writer

Onumba.com ———- There are about 60 grounds to disqualify applicants seeking entry into the United States. It spans the gamut, including spies, drug traffickers, prostitutes, Nazis, coming to practice polygamy and everything in between.

But if President Trump gets his way, ‘being pregnant’ would be added to that listing.

How likely is that, though?

We are taking a “hard look at it,” said Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the president and Deputy White House Chief of Staff.

“If a person comes here nine months pregnant, in a couple of weeks that [person] is the mother of a lifetime American citizen and a direct line into American cash and welfare for the rest of that child’s life.”

Miller ———- a ferocious immigration hawk and a bomb thrower, is correct.

And that precisely accounts for why cracking down on illegal immigration has been a top priority of the Trump administration. The president has recently been focusing on ending “birth tourism,” ——— a slick practice of women who are late in their pregnancies rushing into the country to deliver their babies soon after arrival.

This practice has gnawed at Trump since he became president.  Bypassing the smorgasbord of legislative acrobatics and political nuances involved in constitutional amendment, Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20, 2025 banning ‘birthright citizenship,’ quicker than you can say “enough of this crap.”

But that hurrah didn’t last long. Just yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States in a 6 – 3 bipartisan drubbing, swatted down the executive order, emphatically reasserting that the 14th amendment of the United States constitution guarantees citizenship to “every free-born person in the land.”

A disappointed Trump characterized that defeat as being “too bad for our country,” but quickly regrouped and now has the White House scrambling for a way to still torpedo “birth tourism.”

The administration might be onto something. Banning women in their third trimester of pregnancy from entering the country might just do the trick.