The Supreme Court struck down Trump's order ending birthright citizenship earlier this week.
One conservative watchdog refused to treat that ruling as the final word.
It already has a battle plan ready to gut the decision before it ever takes hold.
Oversight Project Has A Plan Ready Within Hours
Mike Howell did not wait around after Tuesday's ruling.
The president of the Oversight Project and his team spent the hours after the decision assembling a workaround called the Keeping Families Together Plan.
Most conservative groups were still reacting to the loss when Howell's team had already finished drafting solutions.
The strategy is brutally simple – deport the illegal alien parent, pregnant or already raising a so-called anchor baby, and the family leaves the country together.
"My country is more than a pile of magic dirt," Howell said, and the parents are not his countrymen no matter what the ruling says.
He put the underlying problem in blunter terms to Fox News, saying illegal immigrants have achieved what he called "weapons of mass reproduction."
ICE Hospital Stakeouts And A China Visa Freeze
Howell wants ICE positioned at hospitals to intercept pregnant foreign nationals before a baby is even born on American soil.
He is targeting China specifically, calling for DHS to suspend visas tied to nations that run organized birth tourism operations.
There is also a legislative trick buried in the plan.
Howell wants Congress to use the reconciliation process to slap birth-tourist families with what his group calls a tax – deliberately modeled on how the Supreme Court once upheld Obamacare's individual mandate as a tax rather than a penalty.
If it worked for the left in 2012, Howell figures it can work for the right in 2026.
Trump's Deportation Numbers Are Falling Short
Howell was not shy about admitting the uncomfortable part out loud.
He told Fox News that despite the tough talk, the numbers do not come close to the mass deportation campaign Trump promised voters.
Special interests protecting cheap labor and political blowback from incidents like the agent-involved shootings in Minneapolis have made the administration gun-shy, Howell said.
His answer is worksite enforcement – going after the businesses that depend on illegal labor instead of chasing scattered arrests in sanctuary cities.
He wants funding from the reconciliation bill deployed immediately, without flinching at how the coverage will look.
Kavanaugh Just Handed The GOP A Playbook
This is where the ruling actually opens a door Democrats did not expect.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh broke from the other five in the majority and argued Trump's order violated a federal statute, not the Constitution itself – and he said Congress could rewrite that statute whenever it wants.
Justice Clarence Thomas went further in a 91-page dissent, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, calling the majority's history "not historically accurate" and accusing the court of twisting the 14th Amendment to serve a political agenda its authors never intended.
Five justices still won the day, but Kavanaugh just handed House Republicans a legislative roadmap the left insists does not exist.
Here is what fires me up about this story – the left thinks a Supreme Court ruling ends the conversation, and Mike Howell just proved it does not.
Losing a Supreme Court case would end most political fights, but Congress now has the green light in writing – if lawmakers have the nerve to use it.
That is not a loophole liberals can spin away no matter how many law professors they parade on cable news.
Trump already signaled he wants Congress to move, and Howell's plan gives Republicans a legal and practical playbook to act while the ink on this ruling is still wet.
The cartels and border-industrial groups that got rich off Biden-era chaos are not going anywhere quietly, and Howell knows it – which is exactly why he is pushing enforcement at the source instead of waiting for another court fight.
The alternative is pretending the current system is not being gamed by people flying in just to hand their kids a blue passport, and that's a fantasy the left can afford but America cannot.
Sources:
- Will Upton, "Oversight Project Charts Path Forward To Combat Birthright Citizenship," The Daily Caller, June 30, 2026.
- Fox News Staff, "Oversight Project Unveils Deportation Plan After Citizenship Ruling," Fox News, July 1, 2026.
- Mike Howell, "The Birthright Ruling Leaves Trump One Clear Move," The Blaze, July 1, 2026.
- Supreme Court of the United States, Trump v. Barbara, Majority Opinion, June 30, 2026.
