Think More: Friday, July 10, 2026
Birthright citizenship back before the Court, DOJ sues Maryland, Microsoft's H-1B layoffs, the broken Iran ceasefire, and more.
Lead · The Citizenship Fight
House Republicans Move to Force Birthright Citizenship Back Before the Court
Christina Park | Just the News
Ten days after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara, striking down the President’s order ending it for children of illegal immigrants, House Republicans are advancing a bill to restrict the guarantee and force the question back to the justices. Representative Glenn Grothman, a co-sponsor, wants a July floor vote; Trump separately demands a rehearing the Court has not granted in an argued case since 1965.
The Citizenship Fight
Voters Back Birthright Citizenship, and a Constitutional Amendment to End It
Napolitan News Service | napolitannews.org
A Napolitan News Service survey captures the public’s ambivalence: 58% say anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen, yet 47% favor a constitutional amendment ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. Only 39% would back a candidate holding that view, a gap the pollster reads as distrust of Congress more than settled conviction.
Sanctuary and the Open Border
The Justice Department Sues Maryland Over Its Sanctuary Policies
U.S. Department of Justice | justice.gov
The Justice Department has sued Maryland and Attorney General Anthony Brown, arguing the state’s sanctuary policies obstruct federal immigration enforcement and are preempted by the Supremacy Clause. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said the laws silence “everyday American voters.” It is the Civil Division’s latest sanctuary suit, following more than 20 others against states including Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York.
Britain’s Unconfronted Immigration Crisis Is a Warning for America
Writing in Lyceum, Radomir Tylecote reads last month’s Belfast riots, triggered by a brutal knife attack by a Sudanese asylum-seeker, as a symptom of Britain’s unaddressed reckoning with mass immigration. He points to the documented Pakistani grooming-gang scandal in Rotherham and elsewhere, and argues Americans should treat the United Kingdom’s experience as a warning of what unchecked flows can bring.
The American Worker
A Cleaner Fix for H-1B: Reward Lifetime Earning Power, Not Wage-Level Gaming
Sam Peak & Jiaxin He | City Journal
After a federal court ruled against the administration’s $100,000 H-1B fee, Sam Peak and Jiaxin He argue in City Journal for scrapping the visa lottery entirely. Selecting applicants by lifetime earning potential, adjusted for age, would cut IT-outsourcer participation below 4%, they estimate, while tripling visas for artificial-intelligence workers and steering the program toward genuine top talent.
The Server Farms of Mammon: A Conservative Case for Governing the AI Buildout
Phillip Lamb | The American Mind
Phillip Lamb, writing in The American Mind, casts the data-center boom as extraction: hyperscalers draining rural water, power, and farmland while the value ships elsewhere. Citing Senator Josh Hawley, he urges binding the buildout to the American worker through H-1B caps, prevailing-wage rules, and community revenue-sharing, rather than chasing abstract growth.
Microsoft Cuts 1,600 Xbox Jobs While Securing Thousands of H-1B Visas
Microsoft’s cut of about 1,600 Xbox jobs, part of roughly 4,800 layoffs, drew a backlash after figures showed the company won approval for 2,273 H-1B visas this year, per U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Critics tie the two; the company, the sixth-largest H-1B recipient, has not linked the cuts to its visa hiring. The program is dominated by Indian nationals.
Microsoft this week: announced layoffs and H-1B approvals (USCIS and company figures)
1,600
Xbox jobs cut
4,800
Total layoffs announced
2,273
H-1B visas approved, 2026
The Culture War
As Robinson’s Hearing Opens, Douglas Murray Says the Kirk Conspiracy Theories Are Collapsing
Douglas Murray | The Free Press
As the preliminary hearing for Tyler Robinson, accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University last September, opened in Provo, Douglas Murray argues in The Free Press that the case undercuts the conspiracy theories aired by Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Prosecutors cite a handwritten confession and texts; Robinson has not entered a plea.
A New Report Says Universities Are Rebranding DEI, Not Dismantling It
Ray Hilbrich | Legal Insurrection
A new CriticalRace.org report, covered by Ray Hilbrich at Legal Insurrection, finds universities renaming diversity offices as “Access,” “Opportunity,” or “Inclusive Excellence” to outlast Trump’s executive order and 11 state bans while keeping the programs intact. At one campus, an administrator was recorded admitting staff simply “changed the wording of things.”
Lionel Shriver’s “A Better Life” Skewers Blue America’s Open-Borders Faith
Reviewing Lionel Shriver’s novel A Better Life for Chronicles, Mark Pulliam finds a dark satire of Brooklyn’s open-borders progressives, built around a guilt-ridden hostess who takes in a Honduran migrant. Pulliam likens the book to Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities and Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints, reading it as a wake-up call more than a comedy.
Washington’s Long Arm
With the Iran Ceasefire Broken, Trump Weighs Economic Fury Over Endless War
Steven Richards | Just the News
After Iran struck commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, shattering the ceasefire, U.S. forces hit roughly 90 targets and Washington restored oil sanctions. In Just the News, Steven Richards surveys Trump’s paths short of a protracted war: crippling economic pressure under Secretary Bessent’s Operation Economic Fury, proportional strikes, or salvaging the memorandum that set nuclear talks in motion.
Senate Republicans Push to Write the DOJ Fraud Division Into Permanent Law
Senate Republicans are requesting fraud-enforcement data from the Justice Department as they prepare legislation to give the National Fraud Enforcement Division a permanent statutory footing. Created by memo in April under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and led by Colin McDonald, the division now exists at executive discretion; codifying it would shield the unit from a future administration’s reversal.
