Before you know it, anchor babies will be running.
But wait...Bill Richardson, an anchor baby, has tried to run with no repercussions.
If he had a snowball's chance, he might have been investigated more closely. :-)
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It just gets me they try to pin all this on the Wong Kim Ark case.
Not only did Wong Kim petition the court as a NATIVE [not natural born] citizen, the judge said this in his decision:
The right of citizenship never descends in the legal sense, either by the common law or under the common naturalization acts. It is incident to birth in the country, or it is given personally by statute. The child of an alien, if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle.
If there were no difference, the judge would have stated no distinction.
It's like saying a car is just as much a vehicle as a truck. A true statement in itself, but it doesn't make a car INTO a truck!
I guess I just don't understand why do many folks have trouble comprehending this.
[Not that YOU do, of course....but thanks for the opportunity to rant. LOL!]