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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

hmmmm wonder why Italians born to immigrants in NY in 1930 were not citizens till their parents were naturalized?


25 posted on 12/08/2006 3:54:52 PM PST by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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To: AZRepublican
hmmmm wonder why Italians born to immigrants in NY in 1930 were not citizens till their parents were naturalized?

I don't know. The Constitution seems pretty clear:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
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32 posted on 12/08/2006 4:05:00 PM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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