Re: Somalis:
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
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
No adherent to Islam should be allowed in the US. Period.
YES. I agree. The USA is entirely too generous on who they bestow the honor.
How can the mother be “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” if she is an illegal alien or here to commit birth tourism fraud? Congress has responsibility for immigration and naturalization law.
If we don’t we become a citizen of their country and it’s damned close to it now with all the help from the democrats.
I hope nobody flames you! They ought to agree with the article.
We should be selective about who runs for office (ballot access test requirements) and who votes (pass a citizenship test).
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being unimportant and 10 being extremely important, how important is it that voters in the United States of America and the State of [—] understand the core puposes of the respective constutions?
10/10 — Extremely important.
Voters in the United States and [—] are not just picking candidates or policies in a vacuum; they are the final check on a system of government that was deliberately designed to be limited by written constitutions. Understanding the core purposes of those documents is the bare-minimum prerequisite for exercising the franchise responsibly.
Without it, elections become contests of popularity, emotion, or short-term self-interest rather than a deliberate choice about how (and how much) government should act.
That horse left the barn in 1965.
WE ARE THINKING OF THIS THE WRONG WAY
Trump FOLLOWED THE LAW because of what the constitution says. It does not simply say “anyone born here is a citizen”
So, the judges are creating NEW Constitutional LAW if they disagree with Trump.
Do we want them to redefine the constitution? I think we need more than a judicial decision to change the constitution. There is a whole process for amending the constitution
Oh, I strongly disagree with that comment.
This would mean that someone from a foreign country could claim American citizenship simply because they hold the same ideals to which we subscribe.
Stupid comment.
Agreed.
And it’s all thanks to that worthless idiot Ted Kennedy.
My thoughts exactly.
Re: Somalis:
He didn't help, but the real architects of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which basically opened up immigration to the Third World, were Senators Emmanuel Celler and Phil Hart.
H1Bs and such need to be turned around for sure. They can’t be allowed to anchor anymore.
Along with deporting the illegals we should outlaw the democrat party for their undermining our nation’s welfare by opening the borders to shift the vote to their agenda.
Fixed it.
He was soooo proud that he brought obama’s dad over here.
Howabout freezing immigration for several years, like we did from WW 1 to the 1950s.
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