GOP-led push to end birthright citizenship brewing in U.S. House

The Monitor ^ | November 20,2005 | Daniel Perry

[winker]

Anything that can be done to limit or eliminate entry to this country by criminal illegal means should be pre-eminent. However its really how vigilant we are in ridding ourselves of those we catch and those who are responsible for bringing the illegals in in the first place. This is how you address the problem and not just deal with the symptom!

[nicmarlo]

Never under estimate the ability of our Hispandering GOP Big Tent Washington crapweasels to cave at the first whiff of gunpowder from the pro-illegal alien Rats.

Gag...so true.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Thirty-eight of 50 states must approve any changes to the constitution.

That ain't gonna happen!

[the right side jedi]

I definitely think this is an issue that needs to be taken care of but they should allow for the children of legal immigrants who stay in this country (legal resident aliens) to be citizens. Those immigrants usually are the ones who want to be Americans and live the American dream and raise their children as Americans rather than try to game the system. As long as the change doesnt affect children born to legal resident aliens, advocates of this reform can effectively argue that this isnt anti-immigration.

[patriciaruth]

Foreign born or not, I don't want Arnold as President.

He's dying the death of a thousand MSM/Dem cuts here in California anyway, and probably won't be alive to run in 08.

[DumpsterDiver]

but they should allow for the children of legal immigrants who stay in this country (legal resident aliens) to be citizens. Those immigrants usually are the ones who want to be Americans and live the American dream and raise their children as Americans rather than try to game the system. As long as the change doesnt affect children born to legal resident aliens, advocates of this reform can effectively argue that this isnt anti-immigration.

Sounds good to me.

[lowbridge]

and a foreign born should never become the President of the USA. No, not even Arnold.

Especially not Arnold.

[GeorgeW23225]

I totally agree!!

[jonrick46]

It is interesting that the same DemonRATs who object to changes in the Constitution will run out and grab the nearest Seventh Circuit judge to reinterpret the Constitution.

I say an end to birthright citizenship. The invasion of this country by--squatters--is causing a heavy price. For businesses, cheap labor can lower costs which in turn emerge as social costs to be born by taxes. We have seen the heavy toll on France who thought immigrant labor would translate into a competition edge.

For DemonRATs, the invasion is a good thing. The social upheaval creates pressures for increased government services and taxes. It also grows their voter base which will vote to increase government services--a diabolical tactic to stack the deck in their favor--and taxes.

I end my little contribution with this thought: I have used the word DemonRAT several times. Such is a creature that chews on the feed corn of productivity while it promotes more unproductive creatures like itself. I guess another word I should be using is DemonTAX. However, I do not know how to make the plural form of that word, because like DemonRATs, there is an army of them and they are getting recruits from outside our borders.

[Tammy8]

Yes and all along the border they cross right before delivery just to have the baby on US Soil. Many hospitals near the border no longer deliver babies, the illegals do not pay the bill and do not get any prenatal care. They appear at the hospitals in late stage labor with no medical records and if anything goes wrong they will get an ambulance chasing lawyer & sue the Drs and hospital, causing everyone's medical costs to go up.

[DoctorMichael]

About time.

The US is a Country NOT a 'Market'.

[Razz Barry]

"I think the American public is opposed to punishing innocent children," she said. "It’s irresponsible. It does nothing to enhance the immigration debate."

I'm one of those "opposed to punishing innocent children". That's why I'm opposed to illegal immigration. Illegal immigration harms American children.

[blaquebyrd]

"Never under estimate the ability of our Hispandering GOP Big Tent Washington crapweasels to cave at the first whiff of gunpowder from the pro-illegal alien Rats."

It's not just the "pro-illegal alien Rats", that we have to worry about. President Bush will definitely take a position against his citizens, and stand with Vicente Fox and the invaders from the south on this issue.

[tom h]

" A Republican-led effort in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to change a constitutional amendment that grants American citizenship to any child born on the nation’s soil. "

This is not a new issue. Anchor babies have been happening ever since Ted and Bobby Kennedy pushed immigration changes in 1965, and with the onset of the promotion of affirmative action and diversity in the early 1970s. It was so bad 20 years ago -- TWENTY years ago -- that even then, unwed Mexican teenagers would slip across the border through holes in the fence, just so they could deliver their babies in an American hospital. They could then look their illegitimate offspring in the eye and say, "Jose, mi poquito Americano" (my little American).

Amazing that it took 35 years for politicians to get the backbone to finally take this on.