ICYMI: Sen. Banks Joins My View with Lara Trump on Fox News Channel

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) joined My View with Lara Trump on Fox News Channel to discuss the debate over immigration, birthright citizenship, and his Citizenship Act of 2026.

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Key Excerpts:

Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): "Yes, these incidents are tragic; they deserve to be investigated but let the investigations work through themselves and gather the facts to find out what happened before you demonize the tens of thousands of federal law enforcement officers who are trying to keep us safe. The American people elected Donald Trump specifically to deport violent illegal criminals off our streets so that we never have another Laken Riley, so that we never have those violent incidents that have occurred way too many times in America. Our ICE officers, the men and women who are our ICE officers, are overwhelmingly American heroes. And every elected official, Republican or Democrat, should be supporting them, not demonizing them, and turning them into enemies of the people."

"Every generation has a Supreme Court decision that's so bad. You hear about it, you read about it, and you think, how could the Supreme Court rule in the way that they did? And that recent decision that just came down that struck down President Trump's decision on birthright citizenship is one of those decisions. I had so many of my friends, so many Hoosiers reach out to me asking how this could be the case."

"All nine Supreme Court Justices agree that the children of invaders are not eligible for birthright citizenship. And by the way, the Supreme Court doesn't get to determine who an invader is; Congress and the President determine that. So, my bill is simple: it says that there is an invasion of illegals in our country. That's a fact. And that those invaders' babies cannot become anchor babies. They do not warrant birthright citizenship. Justice Kavanaugh told us, even though he was on the wrong side of the decision. That is the case. That would pass Constitutional muster. We don't need a Constitutional amendment to repair this. We need Congress to step up and act."

"We had one Chinese billionaire who says he fathered 100 babies through surrogacy in our country to create anchor babies…I would love to hear Democrats explain how they can support that concept, that illegals and their babies should be granted the same American citizenship that legal Americans are granted. That's a political loser for the Democrats."

"Let's pass my bill, it's Constitutional, it would block babies of illegals from becoming citizens, and it will protect the sovereignty of this country for generations to come."

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