What is still unclear to me is if these anchor babies are considered natural-born or not. It is clear that we are granting them citizenship, even though there is no constitutional provision for doing so, no matter who, or where, the father is, and who's their Mama.
Of course, the Mexican government, for example, is also happy to grant them full citizenship in the home country of the Mom, or Mom and Dad, making them, I suppose, Dual Citizens. So if I understand what I am being told here (my problem, not yours), the granting of that foreign citizenship means little Jose and Maria are American citizens, but would not be "natural born?" Thanks.
A person with divided loyalties at birth cannot be a ‘natural-born’ citizen as the framers posed the terminology in the 1795 law updating the 1790 law.
Well, I can’t really answer your questions. Those are the biggies that everyone’s asking, and no one knows the answer. It all depends on what good people are going to do about this horrible mess with our immigration and citizenship laws.
In my mind, there is only one clear path to sanity and salvation for the country, and that is to restrict American citizenship to those born on our soil of at least one American parent, and to restrict Natural Born citizenship to those born in America to two American parents.
As far as immigration is concerned, we’ve had a border-free holiday going on for 25 years or more now. The smart thing to do, would be to close the southern border completely, and institute at least a 10 year moratorium on any new immigration, except in the most extreme cases.
If the nation doesn’t take some simple, and common sense approach to this, we probably won’t survive as a unified political entity.