Poll: End Automatic U.S. Citizenship

RightBias News ^ | 6-22-07 | UPI

[nancyvideo]

Most respondents to a UPI-Zogby International poll want to repeal the law granting automatic citizenship to anyone born in the United States. More the half of the overall pool of 8,300 U.S. residents said if parents who are illegal aliens are deported, their children should go with them -- even if they are U.S. citizens

[DesScorp]

This is waaaaay overdue. Amend the Constitution on birthright citizenship. Require that at least one parent be a citizen. The only automatic citizenship I support for aliens is for military service. If you’re willing to bleed or die for the US, you should get citizenship.

[Emrys]

Enlighten please. Is this a law or the 14th amendment to the Constitution? I think it’s the latter.

[cripplecreek]

We wouldn’t need to amend the constitution if we stopped them at the border.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Most respondents to a UPI-Zogby International poll want to repeal the law granting automatic citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854638/posts
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2007 (Hunter and Tancredo: Cosponsors to End Illegal Anchor Babies)

[SuziQ]

I think the change in the automatic citizenship policy needs to be part of ANY immigration reform bill. If illegal immigrants know that they won’t be able to come here, have a baby, and immediately have an ‘in’ for citizenship, it may discourage some folks from making the journey.

[CholeraJoe]

There is no “law” granting automatic citizenship to persons born in the US. It’s in the Constitution. 14th Amendment “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States...”

[Pearls Before Swine]

Is this a law or the 14th amendment to the Constitution? I think it’s the latter.

Neither. Congress has interpreted the 14th Amendment contrary to the intent of the 14th Amendment's writers. They could restate their intent. I'm not sure if that would require a law or some sort of Congressional resolution, but it shouldn't require a new amendment to reinterpret the old one as it was meant to be.

[Calpernia]

>>>Most respondents to a UPI-Zogby International poll want to repeal the law granting automatic citizenship to anyone born in the United States. <<<

Ping

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good point!

[Yo-Yo]

I wouldn’t object to parents who have permanent residency status, either. I would object to illegals and those here on student visas or tourist visas.

[Moose4]

Somebody on another thread posted a piece of the Congressional Record where one of the men who drafted the Fourteenth Amendment expressly stated that it excluded “foreigners and aliens.” It must not have occurred to these men in the 1860s that anybody would even THINK to include them.

What we’re going on now, in terms of granting citizenship to anchor babies, is Supreme Court interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment from various court cases.

}:-)4

[gubamyster]

ping

[pissant]

absoultely astoundingly stupid that we EVER allowed this garbage.

[henkster]

If the Supreme Court of the United States has interpreted the 14th Amendment language to mean anyone born here is automatically a citizen, there are only 3 ways to change it:

1. Amend the Constitution through the Amendment process.
2. Have a new case brought before the Court to address the illegal question, and see if the Court would rule that it’s prior opinion did not cover illegals (my guess is that it would not rule that way; it has consistently read the 14th Amendment to confer constitutional rights on everyone on US soil regardless of how they got here).
3. Pack the Court with conservatives who would overturn the prior opinion. Remember, Plessy v. Ferguson and “Separate but Equal” was once the law of the land.

[Greg F]

bump

[truthkeeper]

2. Have a new case brought before the Court to address the illegal question, and see if the Court would rule that it’s prior opinion did not cover illegals (my guess is that it would not rule that way; it has consistently read the 14th Amendment to confer constitutional rights on everyone on US soil regardless of how they got here).

There is an anchor baby case that was just brought before the USSC, on an emergency basis, within the last few days. I'm sure something must be posted here on FR it, although I don't have a link handy.

[TheLion]

Not only should we do away with the ability to have anchor babies, those born in the last few years to illegals should have their citizenship revoked.

[hophead]

“and subject to the jurisdiction thereof”

Key phrase. If you are born to illegal aliens, ARE you subject to the jurisdiction of the US?

[Bernard]

I am not in favor of changing the Constitution in this situation - it’s the enforcement of the rules that allow illegals to stay in this country using an anchor baby that is wrong. This article is clear in it’s language and should be tampered with because of recent history.