Posted on 12/14/2023 8:12:05 PM PST by CDR Kerchner
(Dec. 14, 2023) — A bill introduced on December 8 in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to define the scope of a key phrase of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment with the purpose of abolishing “birthright citizenship,” or the bestowing of citizenship on anyone born within the United States by whatever means.
The 14th-Amendment phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is not only often omitted from mainstream news reporting, but also from the webpage of the U.S. Senate and from other authoritative sources, thereby arguably misleading readers.
The U.S. Senate claims:
Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons “born or naturalized in the United States,” including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” extending the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states. Source: U.S. Senate
In actuality, Section 1 of the amendment begins:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
The bill’s originator, Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX36), in an interview Tuesday told Newsmax the practice of awarding U.S. citizenship to anyone physically born in the country arose from a “misinterpretation” of the 14th Amendment as part of “the policies” arising out of “the open border.”
In a press release dated December 8, Babin described his bill as intended to “end birth tourism” and “combat illegal immigration ... continue reading at: https://www.thepostemail.com/2023/12/14/proposed-bill-takes-on-14th-amendments-subject-to-the-jurisdiction-clause/
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostemail.com ...
40 some years late but better than never.
I hope they also eliminate the DIV ‘diversity’ visa which is inherently unAmerican - it champions where you are from rather than who you are. We don’t have a ‘caste’ system in the USA and I hope we never do.
Two centuries and four SCOTUS cases, is ceremonial only and allows allegiance to a foreign state contrary to the oath.
SCOTUS each case, stated that it is up to Congress to enforce the US oath of naturalization.
If you can be arrested and tried in a US court, you are “subject to the jurisdiction”.
Every Amendment written after the Civil War, especially this one, was poorly written.
The sponsors of the 14th Amendment would agree with this bill.
Every liberal and Leftist believes the Constitution and the 14th Amendment are suicide pacts, and plenty of Republicans agree.
You don't realize you already live in a caste called wigger?
Introduced all these times previously
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/1868/text/ih
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/140/text
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/140?s=1&r=9
Actually goes back to the ‘80s. At one time even Biden signed on.
Seems like the Republicants dangle it every coupla years as red meat to the rubes, but it never goes anywhere.
It took an act of Congress for Native Americans born within the borders of the U.S. to become citizens. That was because the Fourteenth Amendment didn’t make them citizens.
I have always believed that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” interpretation as applied to those who entered illegally does not go far enough.
As I see it, once entered on US soil, the illegal does not automatically gain all the rights of a born child of established US citizens.
To be gain those rights, one must have established residency in the state where the person entered. Depending on state’s requirements under its law, that can take 10-90 days of residency.
So in my view, birthright residency is not allowed.
Subject to the jurisdiction refers to being directly from another country and having allegiance to that country. Meaning every Mexican who crosses the border and drops a kid on our side. The kid is still under the jurisdiction of Mexico.
The word jurisdiction in the 14th amendment has been .misinterpreted. The 14th amendment was written to cover slaves. It didn’t even cover native Americans much less a bunch of illegal aliens.
It’s been my observation over the past few decades that Pubbies are at their rhetorical best a year out from elections and when their bills are DOA in a rat senate.
How did i become ‘wigger?’
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