Posted on 07/25/2015 7:15:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Responding to a Texas case in which state officials are asking that a federal court toss a birthright citizenship lawsuit, Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley declared today that “citizenship is a human right.”
Background on the case from the Associated Press:
Lawyers representing 19 immigrant parents and their 23 children filed suit against the Texas Department of State Health Services after officials refused to issue birth certificates for their U.S.-born children, citing invalid forms of identification. The parents came from Mexico and Central America and living in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, along the U.S.-Mexico border.
…The Texas Department of State Health Services said in a federal court filing in Austin on Wednesday that the lawsuit should be dismissed because the court lacks jurisdiction over claims against the state agency. Lawyers for the agency also argued that Texas has sovereign immunity and cannot be sued and that its policy does not interfere with any federal regulation. Texas, they said, has the “power to control the circumstances under which it will provide copies of birth certificates.”
The health service agency’s Vital Statics Unit, which is responsible for issuing birth certificates, previously accepted consular identification cards and other documents issued by foreign governments, according to the lawsuit. But officials have increasingly come to refuse these, making it harder for parents living in the U.S. illegally status to obtain birth certificates for their children, it said. The agency says it never accepted these documents as valid, and there has been no change to the state’s identification requirements.
O’Malley said “denying birth certificates to US citizens is not only outrageous, it’s unconstitutional.”
“The 14th amendment of the US Constitution could not be clearer. It states that ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside,’” he said. “The Texas Department of State Health services should cease this discriminatory and unconstitutional practice immediately. Citizenship is a human right.”
The former Maryland governor last week released a plan to reform the country’s “inhumane” immigration system, declaring that “the enduring symbol of our nation is the Statue of Liberty, not a barbed wire fence.”
He would expand President Obama’s deferred action program and “conduct sustained nationalization outreach” while an Obamacare block for those temporarily legalized under deferred action.
Under O’Malley’s plan, “the only individuals who should be detained are those who pose a clear threat to public safety or national security” and he will “close or upgrade costly, inhumane, and violent detention centers.”
It is possible this ‘man’ could flounder even more?
It’s important to him that all lives don’t matter. Especially apologizing for saying white lives matter.
What a loon
Loved that guy on SNL...the arrow through the head bit was funny.
If anyone walking across our border deserves citizenship, then American citizenship means nothing. Lets just dissolve our Government and start over.
No it is not......
Citizenship is not and never was a “right”, it is a PRIVILEGE granted so a person may exercise their God-given rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Citizenship may and sometimes is revoked, for good and sufficient reason. Assigning citizenship based on the accident of birth, no matter how idealistic, does not account for an automatic granting of that citizenship.
Citizenship is granted to those who hold allegiance with a particular social order, and there are different social orders all over the world, some with perhaps a different standard of compliance with their rules, but every one of them demanding, at its core, that first allegiance be to THEM, not to some entity with which there is little or no affinity.
Some people shall never be citizens. Of anywhere or anything.
Isn’t this the same dildo who believes that raindrops have a right to land softly on the ground and came up with a tax to punish those people whose homes and driveways violate that right? He’s a sicko.
The problem with the 14th amendment is it should have come with a cut-off date. How many other countries do this? Of course, only a lib would believe birthright citizenship should apply to someone who is in this country illegally.
RE: U.S. citizenship is not. Instead, it is a privilege reserved for those who meet the legal definitions of U.S. citizenship under our laws and our constitution.
Well, that applies to all countries in the world I would think.
I’d like to be a Swiss Citizen, by denying it to me without meeting their requirements, are the Swiss denying me human rights?
The left has always asserted what amounts the rights of everyone in the world to share the benefits (that’s benefits like welfare) of American citizenship. Liberals believe that everyone in the world should have the right to vote for the American President. They have already instituted by precedent the right of anyone born anywhere in the world to BE President of the USA.
Yet he supports abortion - go figure
well, abortion is a human right too ( but not for the baby of course /s ).
Sharp as a marble with a room temperature IQ, so Presidential!
ping
What he means is that there should be only one world government and that you are a citizen of the world and can go anyplace you want and get a job, food, a home, money and a phone, free.
More specifically, anybody can come to the USA and demand everything free.
So the answer is to declare all human beings American citizens, let them into the country and let them vote? But what if they don’t all vote Democrat? Will the test for citizenship ultimately just be to screen out Christians and conservatives? (Note the absence of the /sarc notation.)
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