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Posted on 04/08/2026 4:59:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What do you have in common with New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani?
The country has been on pins and needles in recent weeks, as the Supreme Court weighs a decision about birthright citizenship, which is a question that has persisted throughout every living American’s life, though it seems to me that it never should have been.
First, let’s consider the framers’ intent.
The Fourteenth Amendment is clearly directed toward ensuring that slaves born in America, whose forebears were of African origin, would be considered American citizens after the Civil War. We know this to be a fact because many American Indians were also born on American soil, though they were not considered American citizens when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified.
None of this is rocket science, and, to put it bluntly, the idea that a foreigner could smuggle herself inside these United States’ borders and birth a child to ensure that the child would be rewarded with American citizenship is about the stupidest thing anyone could have ever argued.
And yet, this stupid argument has been the supposed consensus for most living Americans’ lives.
To be clear, there would have been little “reward” for American citizenship in any years prior to the twentieth century. There was no welfare state back then. There was nothing in the way of public education, certainly no federally subsidized health care, no government assistance of any kind.
But, more importantly, what binds us as Americans is not the soil on which we are born – what binds us is the ideals to which we subscribe
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I have my flame suit on.
No need.
We absolutely need to be selective about who can become and American citizen. Unfortunately, I don’t think SCOTUS is going to rule in a way that enables that.
My father smuggled himself into the US in the early 1950s from Canada. He worked for the DoD making triggers for missiles during the Korean War until ICE found him. Dad volunteered to go back to Canada. It took a longtime until he got everything squared away before he came back legally to the Tool and Die capital of the US, Chicago.
My sister and I used to tease him on the record breaking Chicago winter days. Being Dutch, he could have immigrated to Indonesia in particular Bali, the Caribbean etc. instead he chose Chicago!!!!!
It’s high time that America require proof of citizenship before using taxpayer money for benefits.
Any clown who believes that illegal alien invaders are American citizens need to knock off their fentynal and meth treatments. That stuff isn’t doing them any good. The Fentylnalese are commie piggies.
Why? You’re calling it right.
High time? It’s way past that.
All illegal aliens must be deported. No exceptions. If it were up to me, I would also deport all anchor babies, starting Kamala Harris. I would make it retroactive to 50 years. Anyone who has a parent or grandparent illegal alien would all be removed immediately. /spit
Plenty of de-naturalized ppl who are completely ignorant of civics and American government who only represent foreign interests via their social media brainwashing courtesy of the CCP.
America is not the great country it once was now that we have the DemonRAT Party of Death dragging every primitive bottom feeder into America from every sewer on the planet.
There are two legal concerns, Amendment XIV and 8 USC 1401.
8 U.S. Code § 1401...:
“The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(a) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;”
Congress can change 8 USC 1401. If the leftists win over the justices, the quoted text could be deleted in its entirety.
Why are the leftists not merely relying on Amendment XIV?
Because they know it was meant for the “Africans” of 1868.
“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.”
Funny how the last part seems to get left out in quotes.
Not only do most Americans have nothing in common with Zoran Mamdani, they have nothing in common with an illiterate Mexican selling oranges from a cart behind his bicycle in Chula Vista while living in a tin roof shanty with his ten kids and extended family.
People who are here legally should get benefits, too. It’s all about illegals...especially the millions that Biden let in.
If a Canadian woman goes on vacation to Mexico and gives birth to a baby half way there while flying over America that baby is considered an American citizen even if their parents are against it.
That’s obviously what the 14th amendment meant. If you disagree you’re racist
People who are here legally should get benefits, too. It’s all about illegals...especially the millions that Biden let in.
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I don’t know about that. Our immigration system is supposed to admit people whose families can support them or they can support themselves. Why should we admit people we have to support?
100%! Every. Single. One.
I agree completely. But then, all of the arrogant f’n so-called “American citizen” lawyers and judges we have surrounded ourselves with, would have a field day. They have all drunk the illegal-alien Kool-Aid. Including the USSC.
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