The Betancourt case is definitely a mess that need not be. I believe his father is an American citizen to begin with.
He should’a run for President, then proof of citizenship is optional.
We really need to face up to the fact that there is currently no method for really proving where someone was born, and some people — particularly the offspring of illegal immigrants — may really not know themselves. If we want to have a way of proving this, we have to accept that it will require the implementation of a huge biometrics-based federal database, along with a legal requirement that births be entered into the database within 24 hours or even less, and that even with that, it will only be functional for births that occurred after the datatbase was fully operational, and there will still be a few cases where a woman who just gave birth runs across the border, shows up at an emergency room saying she just gave hirth in the US (though with a 24 hour requirement, there would be ample opportunity for investigation of suspicious claims.
That's former-Marine, there are no honorable ex-Marines.
· Why Mexican illegals are driving America "cuckoo":
Why doesn't Mexico take care of its own people? Why do they instead encourage their poor to leave Mexico and invade the United States? Nature provides a parallel that is instructive.
Some species of birds thrive not by carefully rearing their own young, but by pawning that task off on adults of other species. The European Cuckoo, whose distinctive call is immortalized in the sound of the "cuckoo clock," is the bird in which this habit has been most thoroughly studied. Female European Cuckoos lay their eggs only in the nests of other species of birds. A cuckoo egg usually closely mimics the eggs of the host (one of whose eggs is often removed by the cuckoo).
The host may recognize the intruding egg and abandon the nest, or it may incubate and hatch the cuckoo egg. Shortly after hatching, the young European Cuckoo, using a scoop-like depression on its back, instinctively shoves over the edge of the nest any solid object that it contacts. With the disappearance of their eggs and rightful young, the foster parents are free to devote all of their care to the young cuckoo. Frequently this is an awesome task, since the cuckoo chick often grows much larger than the host adults long before it can care for itself. One of the tragicomic scenes in nature is a pair of small foster parents working like Sisyphus to keep up with the voracious appetite of an outsized young cuckoo.
Hardly anyone is more rabid on the border issue than me. If this guy served honorably as a Marine, especially if he served in a war zone, swear him in already.
End of story.
Hey there..check out 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue while you're out there.
So he made it 32 years without having to worry about where he was born.
...only in America.
For goodness sakes if this guy served in the Marines I have no problem he being a US Citizen, however it’s the hundreds of others that come here just for citizenship, and don’t pay taxes with which I do have a problem in this aspect!..
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