Days after arguments on birthright citizenship, a new report revealed the suspect of an attempted U.S. Air Force base bomber to be an anchor baby to parents ordered removed last century.
During March, a number of threats had been reported at U.S. military bases, including at Fort Lesly J. McNair in Washington, D.C. While the base housing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth received considerable attention over concerns about a potential drone strike, a Florida base proved relevant to a case before the Supreme Court as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) apprehended the Chinese national parents of alleged attempted bombers.
First reported by the Daily Wire’s White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan, DHS arrested Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng, who sought asylum in 1993 and were ordered removed in 1998, after the Justice Department had charged their daughter Ann Zheng for her role in attempting to detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) at the MacDill Air Force Base Welcome & Visitors Center in Tampa, Florida on March 10.
Where it concerned the Chinese nationals’ son, Alen Zheng, the DOJ asserted the daughter, “knowing that her brother … had attempted to damage government property by fire or explosion, assisted him in order to hinder and prevent his apprehension, trial, and punishment.”
NEWS: The Chinese-American brother and sister duo accused of planting a bomb at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Bay, Florida, on March 10 were born in the U.S. to Chinese illegal aliens. Their parents, who illegally entered the U.S. in the 1990s, had their asylum applications… pic.twitter.com/fRb2higKmu
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 3, 2026
Sharing Olohan’s report, Daily Wire colleague Jennie Tair detailed how the parents were apprehended “on March 18 for illegal entry. The parents applied for asylum in 1993, but were denied by an immigration judge, who issued them a deportation order in 1998. The Board of Immigration Appeals repeatedly denied their attempts to have their case reopened. Despite the repeated denials for status, they remained in the US.”
Responding to her post, Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) commented in light of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in the case of Trump v. Barbara and said, “Two birthright citizens, born to illegal immigrant parents from China, tried to bomb an Air Force base on American soil. Whoever they were ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ it wasn’t the United States of America.”
Two birthright citizens, born to illegal immigrant parents from China, tried to bomb an Air Force base on American soil.
Whoever they were “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” it wasn’t the United States of America. https://t.co/Hy5ycVac4v
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) April 3, 2026
Likewise, DHS contended, “This attempted attack illustrates why the improper recognition of ‘birthright citizenship’ for the children of illegal aliens is not only inconsistent with the Constitution, but endangers all Americans.”
Acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis had said, “Automatically granting citizenship to children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. is based on a historically inaccurate interpretation of the Citizenship Clause and poses a major national security risk. That reality became apparent last week when two U.S.-born children of Chinese illegal aliens were indicted for planting a potentially deadly explosive device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.”
“This incident underscores the severe national security threat that illegal immigration and birthright citizenship pose to the United States,” she added.
As had been reported, President Donald Trump had made history on Wednesday as the first sitting president to attend oral arguments as the high court considered the challenge to his executive order clarifying the 14th Amendment as not allowing for birthright citizenship.
During arguments, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reignited questions as to her ongoing presence on the bench as she framed a hypothetical about committing a crime in a foreign country.
“I was thinking,” said the jurist appointed by then-President Joe Biden, “I, a U.S. citizen, am visiting Japan. And what it means is that if I steal someone’s wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me.”
She then wildly proposed her presence there meant allegiance to Japan, explaining, “It’s allegiance meaning can they control you as a matter of law. I can rely on them if my wallet is stolen to, under Japanese law, go and prosecute that person who had stolen it. So there’s this relationship, even though I’m just a temporary traveler, I’m just on vacation in Japan. I’m still locally owning allegiance in that sense.”
Before attending the oral arguments, Trump had pointed to just one example of Chinese nationals abusing the 14th Amendment beyond its original intent: “This is not about Chinese billionaires or billionaires from other countries who all of a sudden have 75 children, or 59 children in one case, or 10 children becoming American citizens. This was about slaves. And if you take a look, slaves, we’re talking about slaves from the Civil War.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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