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To: vannrox
Fascinating post! Have you considered sending it on to your congressman or senator if they are the sort who would be interested?

Or forwarding it to Fox News? Maybe John Gibson or Bill O'Reilly would pick up on this issue.

I think it's an important question you've raised.

7 posted on 06/13/2002 12:50:15 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: texasbluebell
The problems arising from birthright citizenship are fairly well known to our elected representatives. There was an attempt to change it when the 1996 immigration reform bill was written, but it went no where. You are from Texas, so you might be aware that Congressman Lamar Smith was one of the ones trying to accomplish reform. He was stymied on nearly every front. The great irony is, there is no reference in the the Constitution to this concept. It is based instead on a very broad, 1896 (or 98) court interpretation of the 14th amendment granting citizenship to former slaves. The Constitution doesn't mention people born here to foreign national parents.

It would take a simple act of Congress to clarify this situation and end the shameless advantage the Mexicans, Asians and fifth-column Muslims are taking of this outmoded and actually self-destructive practice. But they can't bring themselves to do it. We should be asking them why.

9 posted on 06/13/2002 1:08:45 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
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