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To: Sallyven

“addresses the controversial practice of “birthright citizenship”

Controversial how? Everyone born in America is a citizen since the 14th Amendment.

If your goal is to strip citizenship from Americans based on their lack of a pedigree - that’s something that’s going to cut both ways.

What’s to stop Obama from stripping citizenship from others?


4 posted on 04/24/2013 7:07:11 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: JCBreckenridge

“Controversial how? Everyone born in America is a citizen since the 14th Amendment.

If your goal is to strip citizenship from Americans based on their lack of a pedigree - that’s something that’s going to cut both ways.

What’s to stop Obama from stripping citizenship from others?”

Good Grief! Are you Grover Norquist...your thinking is just as suspect!

ONE MORE TIME!
“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. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”

Senator Jacob Howard,
co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.


6 posted on 04/24/2013 7:10:58 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: JCBreckenridge
For starters those born of parent/s that are here illegally should never have qualified for citizenship to begin with. No one will ever convince me someone should get citizenship when the parents are here illegally. If parent are here legally that might need clarification but people should not be able to illegally come here, and have their children get citizenship based on their parents criminal acts. Never should have happened and needs to be stopped.
20 posted on 04/24/2013 11:59:32 AM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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