Brexit. Birthright citizenship. A population cap. Major efforts to restrict or better control immigration have focused on the economy, the courthouse and the ballot box. Still, people continue to cross borders. On July 31, tens of thousands of migrants had crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, a small Spanish territory in North Africa, in a surge that left nearly three dozen people dead and created a “political crisis” for Spain’s pro-immigration government, according to the New York Times and other international media outlets. Ten years after Britons cited immigration as the number one reason they voted to leave the European Union, data from the European Parliament shows that immigration to the U.K. has increased rather than decreased.
The United States Supreme Court rejected a Trump Administration executive order that challenged the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” In June, Swiss voters rejected a population cap of 10 million residents with a vote of 55% to 45%.
