[Arm_Bears]

Why I stopped reading NR.

[NTHockey]

As usual, the simplest answer is the best answer. Acknowledge that child is an American citizen, but parents are not. They have to go, baby stays. Solomon used a sword to find out who the real mother was. Allowing baby to stay and enjoy citizenship but no the parents forces the parents to choose between family and freebies.

[TBP]

Mr. Yoo, you are wrong. The Fourteenth Amendment does NOT mandate birthright citizenship. Congress can, and should, abolish it by statute.

[Biggirl]

Take it up with Mark Levin. He would not agree.

[TBP]

The constitutional text flatly states that children born in the U.S. are citizens, without reference to whether their parents are aliens or not.

No, it does not. If it intended to say that, the jurisdiction clause is both superfluous and unnecessary. Hence, that must not be the meaning.

Nor did the people who wrote the amendment intend it to be read that way. They specifically said that aliens, owing no allegiance to the United States, were not to be considered citizens and thus neither were their children. they also excluded Indians for the same reason. (this was changed by statute in 1924.)

Current law excludes certain classes of children born here from birthright citizenship. If the Fourteenth Amendment says what Mr. Yoo says it says, then that law is blatantly unconstitutional. But NOBODY is making that argument.

Thus, this claim is provably, demonstrably wrong on both legal and historical grounds.

[TBP]

Congress drafted and sent the amendment to the states for ratification not to change the definition of citizenship

False statement. They sent it to change the definition of citizenship by affirming it for free blacks, who had been declared non-citizens by the Supreme Court.

[Dr.Deth]

John Yoo is the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley

Yoo betcha

[Sequoyah101]

John Yoo? Is he an anchor baby or does he have one?

Sure sounds like it.

His article is misleading at best... Intentionally dishonest probably.

The 14th as the vehicle and US v Ark are nothing but smoke screens to a lie.

[ColdSteelTalon]

If the law allows birthright citizenship, end of story (until the law is changed). I am not in support of changing the law, because there are situations where birthright citizenship can be useful to the oppressed.

We need to concentrate on sealing up tight the borders and strictly enforcing the current immigration laws.