The Oversight Project reports that almost half of the nation’s state attorneys general have secretly ratified a key component of President Donald Trump’s immigration scheme.
” Of all the things in the world they may have picked — fuel, groceries, protecting immigrants, making sure teenagers can get their testicles chopped off, whatever otherwise they claim is their top priority — instead, it’s heritage citizenship”, Mike Howell, senior director of The Oversight Project, told The Federalist. ” It shows that the border policies were always political”.
Twenty-two top attorneys in Democrat states, alongside the lead attorneys of San Francisco and Washington, D. C., signed a” common interest agreement” beginning on Nov. 8— just three days after Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in a landslide victory. The pact took effect on Nov. 14.
The parties have come to an agreement that they have a common interest in pursuing potential legal action to challenge executive orders enforcing or restricting birthright citizenship, the pact reads.  ,
On his first day in office, Trump enacted an executive order titled” Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” The order mandated that the federal government not treat “birthright citizenship” as a citizenship of anyone who was born in the United States. The order states that” The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not” subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
The attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, D. C., Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Maine, and North Carolina— along with the deputy attorney general of Arizona and the city attorney of San Francisco — agreed to resist any executive measure limiting birthright citizenship.
By making as many children of the illegals as possible voting citizens, they want to cement the gains made by the Biden border crisis, Howell said. ” That was their reaction after the election — not to change policies, or to adapt, or to recognize it got blown out — but to be like,’ Oh crap, we’re losing now. We really need these new illegal alien voters via birthright.'”
Following the news of the secret pact, TikTok’s Libs pointed out the Democrats ‘ misplaced priorities. ” Instead of fixing gas prices, groceries, or public safety, Democrats ‘ top priority was ensuring that children of illegal aliens from the Biden Border Crisis could become future voters”.
According to Howell, the Oversight Project obtained the document from various states, which” stonewalled” requests with” claims of privilege and other FOIA exemptions.” But eventually, the group got the pact from North Carolina.
” Some were fighting to keep it secret”, Howell said. There is no denying that many of the AGs are upset that North Carolina turned this over.
Howell notes that groups who want to band together legally should not expect a common interest agreement. The scale of it and the political nature of it are what are unusual, he said. He added that Democrats ‘ elected officials were unlikely to sign the agreement on their own.
” I have no doubt that half of the country’s attorneys general were inspired by the idea of executing political suicide at the same time,” Howell said. ” Someone made the Kool-Aid that all these AGs drank” . ,
States like Texas were forced to pick up the slack when immigration rose under former president Joe Biden, and now, under Trump’s leadership, that is what The Federalist has previously reported. A network of federal agencies and non-governmental organizations had been promoting illegal immigration in the interim. For example, the Oversight Project recently revealed that the Mexican consulate in Tucson, Arizona, was working with an NGO that coached illegals to lie to law enforcement.
Howell described the anti-Trump pact as the result of a widespread push by the same border and immigration NGO blob that caused the border crisis. He predicted” a lot of fighting over the next four years,” including legal disputes and “refusing to cooperate with lawful government orders.”
” They’re going to marshal every way to resist they possibly can”, Howell said. So we are going to be the counter-resistance for the next four years because they better get used to us calling them out, according to the Oversight Project.
Logan Washburn is a staff writer who writes about election ethics. He is a The College Fix spring 2025 fellow. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is originally from Central Oregon, but he now resides in rural Michigan.
