What is totally ridiculous is we have this byzantine labyrinth of regulations for our CITIZENS to pass on THEIR citizenship to their legitimate offspring, but an illegal alien can step across our border by two inches, and ten seconds, and drop a baby who magically gains instant NATURAL BORN CITIZENSHIP! And thirty-five years later is eligible to run for President!
That rule is based on minority dicta written by a LOSING justice DISAGREEING with the seven to two majority in a Supreme Court case of how he would LIKE the law to be, but isn't. . . yet the bureaucrats decided they were going to TREAT immigrant babies as if the LAW WERE the way that minority progressive justice opined it should be, without a basis in actual law!
There has been no Supreme Court decision validating that dicta. None, zip, nada.
How absurd is that?
Babies dropped on US soil by illegal (or legal) parents, are NOT Natural Born Citizens. And they should not be citizens at all.
And the SOCUTS needs to address the issues of citizenship!!! NO child of illegals should be automatically given US citizenship, and that was NOT the intent of the 14th Amendment, nor was it understood to mean that, for quite some time after its ratification.
It’s actually a very good thing that this issue was not brought up in 0bola’s administration; now there’s a chance to get a couple of more good SCOTUS justices who will use sound judgement on the matter.
http://thedailypen.blogspot.com/2012/07/obamas-kenyan-birth-records-discovered.html?m=1
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No, this is to pass on the eligibility to be the President, not simply to be able to claim US citizenship. It's very logical: Natural Born Citizen....born domestically to citizen parents...allegiance to no other nation. That's all.
an illegal alien can step across our border by two inches, and ten seconds, and drop a baby who magically gains instant NATURAL BORN CITIZENSHIP! And thirty-five years later is eligible to run for President!
Not true. Cruz, Little Marco, Mia Love and Nikki Haley are essentially the same as anchor babies, except their parents later became citizens....Patriots, but not eligible.
There has been no Supreme Court decision validating that dicta. None, zip, nada.
Actually, yes there is....and it happened a long long time ago.