Posted on 08/20/2015 2:08:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: You know, they're always telling us that we need to be more like Europe, that Europe is sophisticated. I mean, the Democrats are telling us, the people like John Kerry. We need to be more like the Europeans, you know, they're fair, they've modified socialism, they're certainly less barbaric. Did you know...? This is Liz Peek in the Fiscal Times. "Among developed nations, only the US and Canada still offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil. Not a single European country follows the practice."
Did you know that? In other words, let's say that you live in Morocco, and you want to go to London. You go to London, you're a woman and you get pregnant, you give birth, your kid is not a citizen of the UK. The United States and Canada still are the only countries, developed nations, that offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil. Not a single European country follows the practice.
Look, referring to what's happening to this country as an invasion, if invasion makes you nervous, colonization, try that word. And I'm being specific in terms of the definition of words. This is not immigration. These people are not immigrating. They're migrating, maybe, and the left loves to use that word, call them migrants. That makes them sound like they pick lettuce. That makes them sound like they're Cesar Chavez or what have you. But it isn't immigration. Immigration has a set of laws which lay out steps and procedures that noncitizens must follow in order to become citizens. None of that is happening here.
And it's not just here. You know Europe -- speaking of Europe -- they are so obsessed and have been for so long with political correctness, they may as well have erased their borders. This is not a criticism; this is simply a statement of fact. 
The most popular name for newborn baby boys in Britain, what is it, Snerdley? (interruption) Mohammed is right. Mohammed. "What's wrong with that, Mr. Limbaugh?" Nothing. Nothing. Don't jump off your horses out there. I'm just telling you. What does it tell you that's happened?
And I'll tell you, I was wrong about something. I said earlier this week when I first introduced this whole concept of colonization or invasion that many of the people coming are escaping poverty, war, other forms of stress and duress in their own countries, and I've been told that's not the case in a majority of these instances, and particularly with what's happening in Europe. It's just that people think there's a better place to live than where they were born and where they live, so they're going there.
And Europe, you know, I mean these are the people that think they're the smartest and the brightest, the most sophisticated. They're not discriminating. They're not judgmental, none of this, and if somebody wants to come in their country, fine and dandy, and now they're being overwhelmed.
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Liberals are always whining that we need to be more like Europe. Well OK then, here you go.
does ANY country?
Emulating Europe is not, generally speaking, a good barometer for US action.
And, in this case, it’s not even necessary. One need only read the Amendment, which includes the proviso that US born requires the person be ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’, in order to be accorded birthright citizenship.
Illegals are certainly not under such jurisdiction; Justice Brennan aside.
Oddly, although I have never been to Europe, due to two Irish born grandparents, I have the right to take up Irish citizenship, get an Irish passport, and live anywhere in the EU. Yet nowhere in the EU is foolish as to grant anchor baby citizenship.
A couple of my kids got the Irish citizenship that way.
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Looks like political regulator folks are favoring old Roman law more every year.
http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp445-e.htm
CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT
AND CURRENT ISSUES
Prepared by:
Margaret Young
Law and Government Division
October 1997
Revised August 1998
[...]
APPENDIX A
BIRTH ON A COUNTRY’S SOIL:
THE LAW IN SELECTED COUNTRIES(44)
Most people gain their citizenship at birth by means of one of two main legal systems. The first is the British common law system, under which citizenship is obtained by virtue of the place of birth — jus soli — regardless of the citizenship of the parents. The second is the tradition based on Roman law, which gives primacy to the citizenship of the parents — jus sanguinis, regardless of where the child is born.(45)
[...]
FRANCE(46)
A child born in France will or may acquire French citizenship if:
the parents of the child are unknown and remain so until the child comes of age (18);
the child would otherwise have no citizenship;
the parents of the child are foreign but resided in France in the five years prior to the child’s reaching the age of 18.
THE UNITED KINGDOM(49)
Britain removed automatic citizenship by reason only of birth on British soil in 1981.
A child born in the U.K. is a British citizen at birth, or may register as a citizen later, if:
either of the parents is settled in the United Kingdom;(50)
the child is a foundling;
the child spends the first ten years of life in the U.K.;
the child is adopted by a British citizen by order of a British court;
one of the child’s parents becomes a British citizen or becomes settled.
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Japan does not. I am not sure if any country in Southeast Asia does. Australia or NZ might.
But where the Europeans go looney has nothing to do with anchor babies, it’s all the freebies they are willing to shovel out to people who legally or illegally arrive in their countries, sit down and immediately start raking in the cash.
None of that happens here (Japan). There are some programs that foreigners can qualify for if they have lived here a certain number of years or more, but application is difficult, oversight is strict, and fraud is punished.
Show up in Tokyo and stick your hand out for a freebie, the only thing you will get is a free ride to the airport and a ticket back to where you came from.
A good move. In the late 90s, I mentioned the Irish citizenship and passport quirk to a good friend of mine who happened to be a retired spy with deep cover operational experience abroad. My friend immediately urged me to do it if I planned on any foreign travel because he was convinced that Bill Clinton’s derelictions would lead to a long era of Islamic terrorism. As my friend explained it, using an American passport might me one killed, but “although the Irish often hate each other, no one particularly hates them.” When I told the story to some visiting Irish relatives, they took that assessment as a compliment.
Yes... in this case, we are the ONLY idiots!
One of my sons wanted the Irish passport to enable him to eventually live and work in the EU as well as the safer travel worldwide.
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I have a cousin who has done that with her husband. They seem to be having a lot of fun and are living now in Paris.
They do not, for the record. Since 1986, a child born on Australian soil only becomes an Australian citizen if at least one parent is either an Australian citizen or holds a permanent resident visa. New Zealand introduced the same requirements in 2006.
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