Posted on 04/29/2010 7:25:38 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Rep. Duncan Hunter said he would support deporting U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, adding that "it takes more than walking across the border" to be an American citizen."
The San Diego-area Republican congressman spoke Saturday at a video recorded tea party rally in Ramona.
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No. The family stays together. Parents deported, kids go with them. Since the kids were born here, they can apply to return to the U.S.A. when they’re 18-years old.
IMPORTANT: Democrats set the precedent when Elian Gonzalez was sent bacd to Cuba and Republicans agreed that families must be kept intact!
See my post at #41. Kids go with the parents.
>What Hunter should have said is, “it takes more than being purged from a Mexican vagina onto American soil to be an American citizen.
I really like how you’re employing abortionist-like terminology here... it gives a nice dose of meta-irony in that the pro-abortion group is highly likely to also be pro-birthright-citizenship.
It’s true.
Elian Gonzalez became a U.S. citizen as soon as he landed in Florida. The Clinton Administration determined that the his father, in Cuba, should have custody. So the Democrats established the precedent of keeping families intact, even to the point of returning a juvenile U.S. citizen to a dictatorship.
There is NOTHING in the U.S. Constitution about breaking up families just because the kids are citizens but not the parents. Children are the responsibility of their parents and not the Federal Government.
The kids go with their deported folks.
True, but that’s not what federal law (as interpreted and enforced) currently says.
Personally, I think full citizenship should be deferred until one has reached the age of majority, and served a tour of duty in either the military or a civilian Community Service organization, as described in the movie version of Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers.”
Duncan Hunter seems to be one of the few Americans who is not pandering to the Hispanic Ku Klux Klan groups.
A truly great American
And we need to deport the Anchor Babies. They were born in the US during the comission of fraud and a crime (violating immigration laws). Its no different than stealing a social security number
A revision to the Texas education laws in 1975 allowed the state to withhold from local school districts state funds for educating children of illegal aliens. This case was decided together with Texas v. Certain Named and Unnamed Alien Child.
Question:
Did the law violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
Conclusion:
Yes. The Court reasoned that illegal aliens and their children, though not citizens of the United States or Texas, are people “in any ordinary sense of the term” and, therefore, are afforded Fourteenth Amendment protections. Since the state law severely disadvantaged the children of illegal aliens, by denying them the right to an education, and because Texas could not prove that the regulation was needed to serve a “compelling state interest,” the Court struck down the law.
The above paste is from the Plyer vs doe case , it specically states that the children of illegals ARE NOT citizens of Texas or the United States but children of illegals should deserve to be educated regardless of citizenship. This case addressed a education issue not citizenship, but is often misquoted as proof that children of illegals are “citizens”
Yes, agreed. But my point was the court often provides fodder for those who want to muddy the waters. Plus this decision, and failure to enforce existing law, has now led to the untenable situation where states are being bankrupted providing services to illegals and their children.
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