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To: Cheburashka

Bill-shmill!

The 14th ammendment says that the parents have to be here legally, and not immune to our laws. That won’t go away by any act of congress. The congress cannot ammend the constitution.


7,501 posted on 08/06/2009 12:43:27 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor
You don't want to believe me, you go right ahead.

In the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that a person who

* is born in the United States
* of parents who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of a foreign power
* whose parents have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States
* whose parents are there carrying on business and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity of the foreign power to which they are subject

becomes, at the time of his birth, a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the first clause of the 14th amendment of the Constitution.

Legal immigration status is not required. Your liking the way the law is in this matter is not required. It remains true.

If you find it difficult to understand that this is the way the present law is, you will have to surmount that difficulty yourself. I no longer wish to discuss the matter. Take it up with your Congressman and Senators. Tell them you want that bill passed.

7,515 posted on 08/06/2009 1:01:23 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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To: editor-surveyor

“The 14th ammendment says that the parents have to be here legally, and not immune to our laws.”
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Are you saying that the requirement for US citizenship in the 14th amendment was for parents to be here legally? That was certainly not the case for many slaves at that time, who became citizens, right?

Now NBC and BO are a whole other matter. Or even whether BO is a citizen at all, if born in Kenya, based on the prevailing statute of the time.


7,594 posted on 08/06/2009 2:19:50 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country & the Tea Party! Take America Back! (Objective media? Try BIGOTS.))
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