Posted on 06/11/2010 8:25:47 PM PDT by sickoflibs
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say a child born to an illegal immigrant in this country should not automatically become a citizen of the United States, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree and say if a women enters the United States as an illegal alien and gives birth to a child here, that child should automatically be a U.S. citizen. That’s what the current law allows and many believe it would require a Constitutional Amendment to change the law.
Voter sentiments are basically unchanged from four years ago when the Senate was considering the immigration issue. The Senate was eventually forced to drop its plans and surrender to public opinion on the topic.
On another aspect of the debate, voters overwhelmingly oppose allowing illegal immigrants to be eligible for state and federal government benefits. Just nine percent (9%) say illegals should receive such benefits, but 85% say they should not.
Most voters believe that the availability of government money and services draws illegal immigrants to the United States.
Still, there is a huge distinction in the minds of voters between dealing with illegal immigrants and overall immigration policy. Sixty percent (60%) of voters favor a welcoming immigrant policy that excludes only national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system. Twenty-six percent (26%) disagree with such a policy, and 14% more are not sure.
These sentiments, too, have remained constant for years. The current support for a welcoming policy is similar to that found shortly after passage of the Arizona immigration law that stirred a national controversy. In fact, support for a welcoming policy has changed little over the past four years.
And the 33% in favor were probably illegals.
The notion that kids of illegals are bestowed citizenship by the US Constitution is the biggest farce going.
I just saw this now in a link at someone else’s post. I was surprised it was not posted itself.
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Until that part of the 14th amendment is repealed the easiest solution would be to make all hospitals a United Nations consulate or something of the sort.
Fine make it retro active.
ONLY 58%??? C’mon people!!
What the people want doesn’t matter (see healthcare, cap and tax, etc).
This is Obamaland.
Maybe that is not needed. See: 'Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States' at #6
Wasn’t that amendment designed to insure citizenship to the freed slaves and their children?
“We have this common understanding of when you come here to visit, that you are subject to our jurisdiction. You have to obey our traffic laws. If you come here from England, you have to drive on the right side of the road and not on the left side of the road,” he said. “But the framers of the 14th Amendment had in mind two different notions of ‘subject to the jurisdiction.’ There was what they called territorial jurisdiction— you have to follow the laws in the place where you are—but there was also this more complete, or allegiance-owing jurisdiction that held that you not only have to follow the laws, but that you owe allegiance to the sovereign. And that doesn’t come by just visiting here. That comes by taking an oath of support and becoming part of the body politic. And it is that jurisdiction that they are talking about in the 14th Amendment.”
Then by definition—and one would think common sense—legal tourists here to enjoy Disneyland and illegal immigrants who broke into the country clearly do not fall under this blanket of allegiance-owing jurisdiction. Accordingly, their giving birth on American soil does not make their children citizens.
That’s why Obama needs to PUSH THROUGH immigration REFORM. He KNOWS people don’t want REFORM. Other countries don’t automatically grant citizenship to children of ILLEGALS and neither should we. It is being ABUSED.
Probably a lot higher than that. Get them out and send them home so they can do something with their 3rd world hell countries.
Repealed? It wasn't ever ratified. It's sort of a complex story involving a horridly corrupt Republican Congress taking advantage of the turmoil after the Civil War, and I suggest people do a search on the amendment's sordid ratification process.
You are right the 14th amendment was never ratified but the courts ‘assume’ it was and has been making law based on that assumption.
Appeasement did’nt bring the Mexicans to the Republican party. Wimpy RINO’s strategy failed.
Some so-called conservative commentators brow beat those who called for strict enforcement.
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