Posted on 02/01/2014 8:34:39 AM PST by Yooperman
Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights 1. 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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I say NO. The illegal mothers are not subject to the jurisdiction of the US.
“hurisductuib”?
Spell check, or voice recognition mangled “jurisdiction”?
Babies. Not Baby’s.
Sorry, just can’t help myself.
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship for nearly all individuals born in the country, regardless of their parents' citizenship or immigration status.
There is very good documentation for the fact that this was in no way the intent of the authors of the 14th Amendment.
If we want to change the law, we need Congress to do it. The law may be challenged and if not upheld by SCOTUS, a constitutional amendment will be necessary.
the juris doctor is in the house
That's not what I said.
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I didn't see David...
Its what I said. It defies common sense to claim a person is subject to a jurisdiction if there is no record of their presence.
Not so. Canada and Mexico have birthright citizenship along with about 30 other countries, most of them in North, Central, and South America.
Birthright Citizenship in the United States: A Global Comparison
No. The right to consult with the Consulate comes from the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, a multinational treaty to which the U.S. is a party.
The foreign Consulate has no jurisdiction over the arrested national; the foreign national has a right to consult the Consulate just as he or she has the right to an attorney.
The foreign national is fully subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. unless they have diplomatic immunity of some form.
So back in the days when a person born to U.S. Citizens in a rural area never had his or her birth formally recorded, they weren't subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S.?
“They” = “he or she”
They shouldn’t be citizens, but we’ve been making them citizens. So now they feel entitled to be citizens, and any attempt to change that will result in riots, screaming hysteria, sob stories all over the media, howls of racism, etc., etc.
Or put it this way, if I drive on I-10 from Louisiana across the Texas state line, but Texas has no record of my presence, does that mean I’m not subject to the jurisdiction of the State of Texas?
"Dr. John C. Eastman, Dean of Chapman University’s law school in Orange, California, is among the leading scholars in the nation on constitutional law and has testified before Congress on the issue of birthright citizenship. Eastman states plainly that the framers of the 14th Amendment had no intention of allowing another country to wage demographic warfare against the U.S. and reshaping its culture by means of exploiting birthright citizenship.
“We have this common understanding of when you come here to visit, that you are subject to our jurisdiction. You have to obey our traffic laws. If you come here from England, you have to drive on the right side of the road and not on the left side of the road,” he said. “But the framers of the 14th Amendment had in mind two different notions of ‘subject to the jurisdiction.’ There was what they called territorial jurisdiction— you have to follow the laws in the place where you are—but there was also this more complete, or allegiance-owing jurisdiction that held that you not only have to follow the laws, but that you owe allegiance to the sovereign. And that doesn’t come by just visiting here. That comes by taking an oath of support and becoming part of the body politic. And it is that jurisdiction that they are talking about in the 14th Amendment.” Then by definition—and one would think common sense—legal tourists here to enjoy Disneyland and illegal immigrants who broke into the country clearly do not fall under this blanket of allegiance-owing jurisdiction. Accordingly, their giving birth on American soil does not make their children citizens.
Dr. Edward J. Erler, a political science professor at Cal State San Bernardino, has spoken out against the political malaise and the popular misconception that has blossomed around the continued awarding of citizenship to virtually anyone born in the country. Echoing the sentiments of Eastman, Erler points out that the framers of the 14th Amendment sought to reassure the Congress in 1868 that the citizenship provisions did not cover—nor were they crafted with the intent to grant—citizenship to the children of foreign nationals born in the United States. Specifically, the myriad of Native American tribes were not covered under the citizenship clause because they clearly owed allegiance to their tribes and therefore were not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. government—a clear indication Erler says that jurisdiction is indeed contingent on exclusive allegiance. And a child’s allegiance must follow that of its parents during its years as a minor.
“It’s difficult to fathom how those who defy American law can derive benefits for their children by their defiance; or that any sovereign nation would allow such a thing,” Erler said. That it has been allowed to happen on such a massive scale and has even been encouraged by various groups gets Terry Anderson’s blood boiling. A life-long black resident of South Los Angeles, Anderson has used his talk radio show to decry not only the radical and rapid transformation traditional black neighborhoods in Los Angeles and the erosion of the black power structure in the face of explosive immigration, but to blast the government’s policy of granting birthright citizenship to illegal immigrants.
Then by definition—and one would think common sense—legal tourists here to enjoy Disneyland and illegal immigrants who broke into the country clearly do not fall under this blanket of allegiance-owing jurisdiction. Accordingly, their giving birth on American soil does not make their children citizens. "
There is no law that makes them citizens, as the government has acquised the issue:
"Birth Is All You Need
According to Eastman, the real shift in popular perception began to take root in the late 1960s, when the idea that mere birth on American soil alone ensured citizen status.
“I have challenged every person who has taken the opposite position to tell me what it was that led to this new notion,” he said. “There’s not an executive order. There’s not a court decision. We just gradually started assuming that birth was enough.”
Eastman attributes some of it to our nation’s loss of an intrinsic understanding of the language that the framers of the 14th Amendment spoke and used in that era, ergo a century later the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” has been watered down in the collective American consciousness to require little more than an adherence to traffic safety laws. "
My understanding is that we are the only nation that has not outlawed birthright citizenship. Apparently Canada has not. That still puts us in the vast minority.
And looking to the near future, anyone born in the USA or Mexico will be defacto citizens of a defacto merged USA-Mexico.
Already today, having Mexican citizenship, absent a felony conviction, means you won't be deported from the USA.
You realize we’re talking about national citizenship here, right?
Obviously your understanding is incorrect. I provided you with the link that goes into some detail about birthright citizenship and how the US compares globally. Canada has birthright citizenship, not "apparently" has not outlawed birthright citizenship.
That still puts us in the vast minority.
Absolutely. There are only two advanced economies that have birthright citizenship, Canada and us. Ireland was the last country in Europe to get rid of birthright citizenship and that was thru a constitutional amendment.
The 30 or so countries that have birthright citizenship are mostly in the New World, a legacy of European colonialism.
We should eliminate birthright citizenship and dual citizenship.
“...and of the state wherein they reside...”
In my opinion, they have not established “residency” by virtue of being born. Seems to me that this clause disqualifies them IF the authorities show the will to enforce established law, by sending them back to their parent’s home country prior to their spending the qualifying amount of time in whatever state they enter illegally.
Most states require that one must live in a state for 30,60, or 90 days before becoming a legal resident.
Just one man’s point of view.
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