Durbin: Maybe Illegal Alien Will Become President Someday

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Durbin: Maybe Illegal Alien Will Become President Someday Wednesday, June 29, 2011 By Terence P. Jeffrey

(CNSNews.com) - Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) said in a congressional hearing Tuesday that a young person who is an illegal alien in the United States today may someday become president.

“When I look around this room, I see America's future, our doctors, our teachers, our nurses, our engineers, our scientists, our soldiers, our congressmen, our senators, and maybe our president,” Durbin said immediately after having asked all young persons in the room to stand if they were currently undocumented aliens who would be eligible to become citizens if the DREAM Act were passed.

As a videotape of the hearing shows, a large portion of the audience in the room rose at Durbin's request. Durbin also said in his introductory remarks that there were "hundreds" of young people in the room eligible to become beneficiaries of the DREAM Act.

“I ask my colleagues to consider the plight of these young people who find themselves in a legal twilight zone through no fault of their own,” said Durbin. “They are willing to serve the country they love. All they're asking for is a chance.”

Making the young people Durbin was speaking of eligible to become president would require more than passage of the DREAM Act, however. It would require a constitutional amendment.

As the U.S. Constitution now stands, even legal immigrants are not eligible to serve as president. Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution says: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

[BerryDingle]

If you can't stand and face the flag, put your right hand over your heart and at least, keep your mouth shut, or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, you:

1. Probably weren't born in the U.S.
2. Definitely didn't attend Primary school in the U.S.
3. Definitely didn't attend Elementary school in the U.S.

[octex]

Thanks for the informative posting. I only got half way through reading, so will continue later.

I believe a NBC must be born under US jurisdiction to parents who both are US citizens. I’m open to reading the various opinions regarding the issue, though.

[liberalh8ter]

Seems to me that if a elected official makes a statement that clearly demonstrates a disregard for the Constitution they swore to uphold, they need to be relieved of “service”.