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To: Valpal1
The Constitution expressly forbids the making of ex post facto laws. That’s why not. You can change the law going forward but never backward.

That will be another issue for the Suprems, there being no law granting citizenship to those born here with no citizen parent.

361 posted on 10/30/2018 5:49:36 PM PDT by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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To: SJackson

My grandparents were born in Rochester, NY (1), Meriden, CT (1), and Brooklyn, NY (2) in 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896.

At the time of their birth, only one of my 8 great-grandparents was a US citizen, having been born in New York City in 1864. The other seven great-grandparents were subjects of the Emperor of Germany or of Her Britannic Majesty Victoria Alexandrina.

At no time during the lives of my grandparents was it ever suggested that they were not US citizens. My grandfathers served in the Army and the Navy during WW I. My mother’s mother was a NYC public school teacher for 55 years at a time when US citizenship was a requirement.

Both of my grandfathers’ WW I draft cards had boxes to check for citizenship status. There were two boxes: “Natural born” and “Naturalized” (there was also a box labelled “Alien”). Since my grandparents were never naturalized, both of my grandfathers checked “natural born”.

Do you assert that none of the millions and millions of white children born to immigrants who were not naturalized were actually citizens? No one at the time asserted that - no one.


368 posted on 10/30/2018 8:03:32 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain)
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