By: Dr Avi Verma

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued a trio of forceful statements this week on matters ranging from a dangerous ICE operation in his district to national security concerns over AI chip exports and the future of birthright citizenship in the United States.

ICE Operation in Elgin Sparks Outrage After Chemical Exposure Sends Residents for Medical Treatment

In Elgin, Illinois — part of Krishnamoorthi’s congressional district — an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation resulted in a vehicle crash and the release of chemical irritants that drifted into a residential area. Several residents, including a young child, reportedly required medical treatment for chemical exposure.

Krishnamoorthi condemned the incident in unequivocal terms.

“I am outraged that a brazen ICE operation in Elgin resulted in a car crash and the deployment of chemical irritants that left multiple people needing medical treatment,” he said. “Spraying tear gas in a residential neighborhood is an unacceptable danger to the community, no matter the circumstances.”

He demanded immediate answers from ICE and the Department of Homeland Security on why chemical agents were used and what accountability measures will follow.

Congressman Warns of “Profound National Security Mistake” as Trump Administration Considers H200 AI Chip Exports to China

In Washington, Krishnamoorthi raised alarms over President Trump’s plan to permit NVIDIA’s H200 advanced AI chips to be exported to the Chinese Communist Party. As the Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the CCP, Krishnamoorthi framed the potential approval as a critical threat.

“Allowing the export of advanced U.S. AI chips to the Chinese Communist Party would be a profound national security mistake and a gift to our top strategic competitor,” he wrote.

Krishnamoorthi emphasized that high-end GPUs remain central to the United States’ technological edge in AI development, defense modernization, and economic competitiveness. Weakening export controls, he argued, would help Beijing narrow the technological gap.

“Instead of opening the spigot for H200 sales to China, we should strengthen guardrails, build cutting-edge capacity here in the United States, and ensure that American workers and our national security — not the CCP — benefit from the future of AI,” he said.

Krishnamoorthi Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Birthright Citizenship

The congressman also weighed in on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear President Trump’s challenge to the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship — a bedrock constitutional protection since 1868.

Calling the challenge “unconstitutional” and “an attack on American values,” Krishnamoorthi urged the Court to uphold more than a century and a half of legal precedent.

“For more than 150 years, our courts have read the 14th Amendment’s command plainly: every child born on American soil arrives with an equal claim to the rights of citizenship,” he said.

He warned that dismantling birthright citizenship would destabilize the futures of millions of American children whose rights should not depend on “shifting politics or prejudice.”

“No president can override that constitutional promise or dim the welcoming light it has cast across our history,” Krishnamoorthi said. “The Supreme Court must reaffirm what the Constitution makes unmistakably clear: citizenship belongs to every child born in the United States.”