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U.S. Supreme Court

INS v. Rios-Pineda, 471 U.S. 444 (1985)

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Rios-Pineda

No. 83-2032

Argued March 20, 1985

Decided May 13, 1985

471 U.S. 444

CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE

EIGHTH CIRCUIT

Syllabus [excerpt]

Respondent husband was apprehended in 1978, and,
- although at his request he was granted permission to return voluntarily to Mexico in lieu of deportation,
- he refused to leave as promised.
Deportation proceedings were then instituted against respondents,
- who by that time had a child, who,
  - being born in the United States,
- was a United States citizen.

[end excerpt]

I'm a slow reader so I figured why not add my little ul's and li's as I go. Then I can read the formatted version and pretend that I am a fast reader.

Being born here means you are a citizen was just kind of gratuitous dropped into this case of an ILLEGAL alien couple being deported and appealing the decision.

The procedure did not raise the question it just some someone typed in that IT IS SO THAT the illegal alien couple's children born here are citizens.

Is this sort of an aside comment how all that citizens-for-all-born here got started?

By the time the Respondents made several frivolous appeals following this there was a second child born here and it too is assumed by this document to be a citizen.