Rubio ‘not in favor of repealing’ birthright citizenship (because he is an Anchor Baby himself...)

Washington Post ^ | 8/18/15 | Sean Sullivan

[jimbo123]

Marco Rubio is not echoing Donald Trump's call to repeal the constitutional provision that automatically grants citizenship to individuals born in the United States.

"I'm open to doing things that prevent people who deliberately come to the U.S. for purposes of taking advantage of the 14th Amendment, but I'm not in favor of repealing it," Rubio, a Florida Republican senator and presidential hopeful, told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday.

[alloysteel]

There should be a change and clarification of just what is meant by “birthright” citizenship.

Just because a cat has kittens in an oven, that does not make them biscuits.

At best, the child should have been born of parents who are LEGALLY present in the country, but this should not in and of itself automatically confer full citizenship. The child may be returned to the country of the parents’ nativity, and thus would revert to the citizenship (if any exists) of the parents.

Or the parents may remain in the country to which they emigrated, and themselves become naturalized, and therefore fully legitimize the claim to citizenship for the child. But if the parents, neither one, ever becomes a naturalized citizen, then the claim on US citizenship is only probationary, to be affirmed upon reaching the age of majority, by formally rejecting the second of what would otherwise be a dual citizenship.

Proof of allegiance may be required by taking the same course of citizenship study assigned to all applicants for naturalization, and and an oath sworn out, to fully support the claim to citizenship, renouncing all others.

[Michael.SF.]

You cannot repeal that which does not exist.

[Electric Graffiti]

The courts have no enumerated power to say who is or who is not a citizen.....ie the power of naturalization.

Why does Congress have to follow the courts opinion but not the other way around? /rhetorical

[jimbo123]

Birth tourism.

H1B visa offspring, too.

[Theoria]

Gov. Jindal was born 4 months after his parents arrived in this country. His mom came here pregnant, and they were on green cards.

[TigersEye]

No, I don’t mean “like birth tourism from China?”

Have you been huffing gasoline again?

[Electric Graffiti]

Have you been huffing gasoline again?

Not since they took the lead out. Really loved that stuff.....

[longtermmemmory]

Cuban parents have different status. I believe their passport covers used to be white but still US passports.

[Red Steel]

Commie Justice Ginsberg: I can see it from my house Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 magically transported over to Article III of the US Constitution!

Don’t you all see it? It’s there!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Ding,ding,ding! We have a winner. Thank you.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Has everyone forgotten what a dickhaid this guy is? Come on.

[Trod Upon]

I’m not sure how high a non-Mexican can rise inside the “Klan With a Tan.”

[Theoria]

So? End the animal farm.

[skeeter]

Not me.

Every time I hear Marco talk I feel like I'm being sold an insurance policy.

[Political Junkie Too]

They were originally planning to come on student visas, but the university sweetened the pot and offered them green cards instead.

-PJ

[TigersEye]

Did I misunderstand your first post?

[Theoria]

No, they came here via the Federal government wanted to increase the number of engineers here. The old man got a green card and his wife received one via being a spouse.

[Political Junkie Too]

She came here to go to grad school, and daddy tagged along.

-PJ

[Theoria]

'The most significant new piece of information is that the Jindals entered the United States on green cards secured not by the governor's mother, Raj Jindal, based on her LSU scholarship, but by his father, Amar Jindal, based on his training as an engineer.'

[wmap]

Your logic is horrible we all are anchor babies, even native Americans