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You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for May 22, 2026.
We open with the Supreme Court's pending decision on birthright citizenship — one of the most consequential immigration rulings in American history. We break down the actual constitutional debate over the 14th Amendment's phrase subject to the jurisdiction thereof, what the founders who wrote and debated the amendment said it meant at the time, why the logical interpretation is that children of people who entered the country illegally were never intended to receive automatic citizenship, and why President Trump's comment that the court will probably rule against him may be more strategic than frustrated — a piece of reverse psychology designed to force the justices to rule on the law rather than their feelings about Trump.
In our Top 3 Things You Need to Know, the Democrat National Committee released its 192-page post-mortem on the 2024 election — complete with a disclaimer that it doesn't necessarily represent the views of the DNC itself. The report blames Kamala Harris for not changing her position on transgender issues, says Democrats didn't run enough negative ads against Trump, and admits the party took Latino voters for granted — but doesn't say a single word about Biden's mental decline or the decision to install Harris as nominee without a single primary vote. Then the DOJ indicted 15 people in Minnesota for $90 million in Medicaid fraud — the largest Medicaid fraud case in Minnesota history and the largest autism fraud case in American history — while Tim Walz was governor. And the Department of Homeland Security announced that more than 3 million illegal aliens have either been deported or voluntarily self-deported since President Trump took office — with self-deportation costing the government over $10,000 less per case than forced removal, and an app available for anyone who wants to take advantage of the $2,600 voluntary departure payment while preserving their right to return legally.
We also discuss the broader immigration picture in France, where a major new study shows that roughly one third of France's population is either foreign-born or the child or grandchild of immigrants — and what happens when mass immigration is welcomed without any expectation of cultural assimilation. We connect it directly to the debate happening in America and explain why saying American culture is worth preserving is not racism. It's patriotism.
Our American Mamas Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson tackle a deeply relatable topic — growing up with spoiled cousins, and the particular heartbreak of watching a child feel less valued than their cousins by the same grandparents. We get into the nine-year-old boy who told his mother through tears that he was really trying to be grateful, the grandmother who took one grandchild on a New York trip and forgot she had other grandchildren, and why the awareness to keep things equitable across cousins is one of the most underappreciated gifts a grandparent can give.
We sit down in studio with Dan Clark, regional director for Bill Glass Behind the Walls Ministry — a national and international prison ministry founded by former Cleveland Browns defensive end Bill Glass, a close friend of Billy Graham, who walked onto a prison yard decades ago and never stopped going back. We talk about fatherlessness as the pipeline to incarceration, why people of faith have a measurably lower recidivism rate than those without, what it looks like to go behind the walls of a supermax facility and share the
