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Wunderbar!
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Has this issue ever been decided definitively by the U.S. Supreme Court?
An alien living ilegally in this country is a fugitive from the law and is not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
If all it took after the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868 was to be simply born on American soil, then why where American Indians not considered U.S. citizens by birth until after the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924?
"BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property. (Approved June 2, 1924)"
The drafters of the 14th Amendment specifically put in the clause "under the jurisdiction thereof" to distinguish between Americans and non-Americans who happened to give birth on U.S. soil.
I don't think that merely having a kid on US soil makes the kid a US citizen. I think that the parents have to be legal landed immigrants, not just "visitors".
I'm sure someone had posted the laws regarding this on another thread a while back.
This article is 100% legally inadequate.
The already DID eliminate the anchor babies with the 1996 immigration reform act.
The child is supposed to go back with the illegal parents and then has the right to return at 18.
What has happened is that the immigration lawyers have GAMED THE SYSTEM.
They argue unusual hardship or special needs for the child to stay in the USA.
the LEFT WING judges ALLOW THIS TO PASS.
We need to reign in the JUDGES and IMMIGRATION lawyers who play this game.
This has got to stop. It must be made a national imperative....
Does anyone else find this insulting and condescending? How did America survive a hurricane before illegals.
I am in favor of the Fourteenth Amendment being redefined - even if at individual state levels - to clarify that to qualify for birthright citizenship of the United States, a child must have been born of or adopted by a citizen or legal resident of the United States and that at least one parent or legal guardian must have to verify their citizenship or legal status before a birth certificate is issued by any agency. Any child born in the US not of a citizen or legal resident shall be issued a certificate of birth with non-citizen status clearly marked so that birth may not be used to complicate deportations of illegal aliens. I am also for rejecting of and the nullification of any certificates of marriage issued in the United States to any person who is not or was not legally admitted into the United States prior to the certificate's issuance or the application thereof. Persons who marry in other countries and whose non-citizen spouses wish to immigrate into the U.S. must follow current applicable immigration protocol.
Our elected leaders may as well be on
bin laden's payroll.
bin laden couldn't have planned a more
effective way to attack us. Our
(so-called state and federal) leaders
are busy being bin laden's pawns.
Anyone with common sense sees what is
taking place, but not our leaders.
Our leaders are "Stuck on Stupid"
Get ready folks, you ain't seen nothing yet!
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What a scam
It used to be that the US-born baby was sent with the parents when they were deported, free to return when he turned 18.
When did all this stop?