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Birthright Citizenship in the United States: A Global Comparison
Center for Immigration Studies ^ | August 2010 | John Feere

Posted on 08/19/2015 12:45:52 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan

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1 posted on 08/19/2015 12:45:52 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Bumperoonie


2 posted on 08/19/2015 12:47:25 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Its a race to end the madness now, one we may already have lost.


3 posted on 08/19/2015 12:47:43 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Jim Robinson; Lurking Libertarian; P-Marlowe; xzins; Ray76; Anitius Severinus Boethius; Jim 0216; ..

Ping to a well balanced background primer on this issue.


4 posted on 08/19/2015 12:50:06 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Every year, 300,000 to 400,000 children are born to illegal immigrants in the United States.

Dang, that's a lot.

Maybe a quick fix would be to declare those hospitals as embassies or something, and the rightful territories of Mexico.

Cost maybe a couple hundred bucks for a nice metal plaque.

5 posted on 08/19/2015 12:51:29 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: BuckeyeTexan; Laissez-faire capitalist

Some more help for your Constitutional insight.


6 posted on 08/19/2015 12:52:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Where does an illegal alien reside?


7 posted on 08/19/2015 12:53:15 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Will88; Laissez-faire capitalist

Forgot to include y’all in the above courtesy ping. Apologies!


8 posted on 08/19/2015 12:58:07 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: BuckeyeTexan; Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; ...

“Stupid People of America !!! If You Ain’t Mad, You Ain’t Payin’ Attention!”

Terry Anderson


9 posted on 08/19/2015 1:00:04 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Bump for later- that’s a long one.


10 posted on 08/19/2015 1:00:35 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-congress-can-end-birthright-citizenship-without-amending-the-constitution/

These classes of people, even if born here, are NOT American citizens under the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952:

a child born on American soil to a:

(1) foreign ambassador,
(2) head of state,
(3) foreign military prisoner

So what prevents Congress from simply adding another class of people to the list?


11 posted on 08/19/2015 1:03:35 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Ann Coulter’s article on the 14th Amendment yesterday was an eye opener.In 1982, Justice Brennan, the old Leftist Supreme Court Justice, put the idea of illegal aliens’ children being given citizenship into A FOOTNOTE in one of his options. For 100 years, no illegal aliens had birthright citizenship, until he came up with this idea. The framers of the amendment specifically stated it would not apply to foreigners, not even the children of diplomats born while in the USA.

So again, the American people have been lied to concerning this history, and this blatant fraud has cost the states hundreds of billions of tax dollars on anchor babies.


12 posted on 08/19/2015 1:04:00 PM PDT by txrefugee
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Sure, why not? Ceding U.S. sovereign territory to Mexico is all the rage these days. /s

;p


13 posted on 08/19/2015 1:13:44 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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Aww.. it’ll just be a little plaque outside the back door near the dumpster.

Like the fine print you always agree to when signing up for stuff online.

Beats the hell out of walling off our river.


14 posted on 08/19/2015 1:19:00 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: TBP
These classes of people, even if born here, are NOT American citizens under the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952:

a child born on American soil to a:

(1) foreign ambassador, (2) head of state, (3) foreign military prisoner

So what prevents Congress from simply adding another class of people to the list?

Nothing, so long as those in the new class don't have citizenship guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
15 posted on 08/19/2015 1:20:20 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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Because there is a constitutional Amendment that prohibits it. The option is an a Constitutional Amendment.


16 posted on 08/19/2015 1:33:47 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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So, for the most part, countries with automatic birthright citizenship are socialist moonbat and/or 3rd world cesspools.

Got it.


17 posted on 08/19/2015 1:34:23 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: RIghtwardHo

Read my post. The Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit it. Otherwise, those classes of people could not have been excluded.

Check out the link I posted. Mark Levin’s analysis of this is brilliant.


18 posted on 08/19/2015 1:35:16 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: txrefugee
Coulter's article was from 2010, as is this one.

Justice Brennan's dictum in Plyler v. Doe is also discussed in the section of this article entitled, "The Supreme Court Weighs In."

Note that Plyler v. Doe held that the denying of public-school admission to illegal-alien children would violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. That particular case did not address birthright citizenship.

19 posted on 08/19/2015 1:37:03 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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Bump to the excellent, comprehensive article. It is a complete background primer on the subject of birthright citizenship. Not only is the media hitting hard and fast with the notion that birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution, but there are a large number of freepers who are a part of that same understanding of birthright citizenship and are advocates of it.


20 posted on 08/19/2015 1:38:46 PM PDT by xzins (Don't let others pay your share; reject Freep-a-Fare! Donate-https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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