Posted on 11/01/2018 7:04:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I’m a first generation American whose foreign national parents were legal immigrants when I was born. Do I get to stay?
The illegal immigrant has access to the embassy of the country from which he came. Thus US does not have jurisdiction.
If true, that “birthright Citizenship” has been accomplished by Executive Fiat, then it CAN be undone the same way.
RE: I’m a first generation American whose foreign national parents were legal immigrants when I was born.
The Wong Kim Ark Supreme Court decision of 1898 already answered that question. Since your parents WERE LEGAL ( emphasis ) residents, you ARE American by birth.
This is a sensible question... At what generation with your offspring does it finally apply? If ever?
Has President Trump’s State Department STOPPED issuing passports to anchor babies of illegal aliens, tourists, and others? I wish we could say Yes. When will he do so?
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Obviously, the wrong occupant of Ted Kennedy’s car drowned!
Yes, because they are LEGAL immigrants.
I think what POTUS Trump will do is issue an Executive Order to enforce his opinion the the 14th already says children of illegals are not citizens due to the “jurisdiction of” clause. The lefties will file a lawsuit to block enforcement. A lefty judge will oblige. Appeals will follow. Hello, SCOTUS. By the time it gets that far, Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg will be room temperature, and POTUS Trump will have his 3rd Justice confirmed.
Such a shame. Too bad that girl had to die and that drunk managed to survive.
The most effective way of stopping anchor babies is to make sure pregnant illegals don’t get into the US.
Birthright Citizenship: A Purposeful Misunderstanding of the 14th Amendment
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Another aspect of the language of the 14th amendment is that if the ‘birthright’ proponents are correct, it means everything after the “and” in the amendment is superfluous. I can’t recall specifically what the legal term for it is, but the Supreme Court has ruled in the past that nothing in the Constitution is superfluous unless it has specifically been rendered moot by subsequent amendment.
WHAT YOU SAID.
It’s something else entirely to claim that an illegal alien, subject to deportation, can drop a baby and suddenly claim to be the parent of a “citizen.”This crackpot notion was concocted by liberal zealot Justice William Brennan and slipped into a footnote as dicta in a 1982 case. “Dicta” means it was not the ruling of the court, just a random aside, with zero legal significance.
Anne Coulter
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