[JCEccles]

anybody who is born on American soil is an American citizen.

We need to change that with a constitutional amendment. That's one of the incentives that are drawing them across the border. We need to neutralize the "anchor baby" ploy.

[Mojave]

We need to change that with a constitutional amendment.

Not really. Sinkspur was just repeating a falsehood.

If Congress as part of its war on terrorism would require all aliens in the country to turn themselves in and deem any that refused hostiles, any anchor babies they subsequently bore would not be citizens. Been that way since 1868.

[lawdog]

"With the appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Dwight Eisenhower, the Court began to simply USURP power under the “equal protection” phrase of the 14th Amendment, to do ANYTHING desired by a majority of the Court. The “equal protection” doctrine has been used by the Court to impose FEDERAL mandates upon the States in such areas as education, voting rights, abortion, religious instruction, labor disputes, and the list goes on and on.

Precisely the kind of judicial tyranny which Thomas Jefferson warned of when he described federal judges as those who would be “constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.”