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  • 4 More CA Members Co-Sponsor Birthright Citizenship Act (Bilbray, Calvert, Campbell & Hunter)

    02/11/2011 3:12:43 PM PST · by pissant · 5 replies
    Numbers USA ^ | 2/10/11 | staff
    Reps. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.), Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), John Campbell (R-Calif.), and Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) have cosponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 introduced by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). All four Members signed onto the bill shortly after it was introduced in the 112th Congress. The bill currently has 56 cosponsors and amends current U.S. code to require at least one parent to be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident for a new born to receive automatic citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment extends citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. and "subject to the jurisdiction"; it also grants Congress the...
  • Amerasians have standing to challenge Birthright Citizenship

    08/29/2010 3:18:44 PM PDT · by jdirt · 4 replies
    Aug 29, 2010 | jd
    Legal scholars and constitutional lawyers please opine. Many people want to discontinue the federal government’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause. People feel that it is just plain wrong for people to be awarded citizenship because their parents broke the law. The illegal immigrant parents will become legal citizens too when their citizen children turn 18, so who needs all that headache of jumping through amnesty hoops. (They can become a citizen here and never learn English). Anybody who didn’t qualify for amnesty (with legal documents or falsified documents) in 1986 just stayed anyway. There are four ways...