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To: Verginius Rufus
It looks like it should allow denial of U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal aliens or Asian tourists, but what about legal immigrants who are intending to become citizens but haven't been in the U.S. long enough to complete the process?

Legal immigrants in the process of acquiring citizenship clearly fall under the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" clause (they are in the country under proper legal authorization and are answerable to American law). Thus, children born to such persons on US soil are immediately US citizens.

Of course, the problem isn't with legal immigrants.

55 posted on 02/18/2004 7:15:26 AM PST by steve-b
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To: steve-b

Not according to this Sierra Club-aligned Know-Nothing organization who sponsored this Yellow Peril editorial. They claim that ALL immigration must stop.

61 posted on 02/18/2004 8:00:30 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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