Birthright Citizenship: The 14th Amendment
Does Not Apply to Illegal Aliens
American Thinker,
by
David Sultzer
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
12/2/2024 5:18:30 AM
America is about to go to war over whether the government has the power to deport entire families of illegal aliens. That question involves “birthright citizenship”—that is, whether a child born in the U.S. to illegal alien parents is automatically a U.S. citizen and, thus, an “anchor baby?”
The answer, by any fair reading of the Constitution and history, is “No.”
Our nation must have complete control of our borders. No illegal alien should be able to circumvent the laws of our nation. English common law, the basis for U.S. law, did not allow such people, the children of “hostile occupiers,” to become citizens by virtue of birth.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/2/2024 6:31:09 AM (No. 1846623)
A lot of illegal alien parents are going to be surprised when the entire family is shipped back home.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/2/2024 6:34:53 AM (No. 1846629)
“Birthright citizenship” is a travesty against American sovereignty. It would be far too wrenching to deport families that had spent their whole lifetimes here. I would support a law that ends birthright citizenship, while leaving law-abiding non-citizens be, as long as they’re not involved in criminal activities. Those that are allowed to stay will not have a right to vote nor be allowed involvement in political activities. One more thing; no more sending money back to families, in Mexico nor any other foreign land. Mexico is not the only country with its citizens nesting with us. BTW: I favor deporting ALL Muslims back to their sandy hellholes! That includes those who converted to Islam. I have no tolerance for that anti-Christian and anti-Semitic “religion.”
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 12/2/2024 6:41:23 AM (No. 1846639)
So this also means all of the Chinese mothers flying into California to give birth to their babies will not be "Citizens " of our Country. Is that correct?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
OhioNick 12/2/2024 7:17:10 AM (No. 1846680)
The article fails to mention two important things. The writer of the 14th Amendment went on the floor of the Senate in 1868 and explicitly stated that the amendment would not grant citizenship to the children of foreign nationals. He had been forced to rewrite the amendment because the first draft was ambiguous on the matter.
Secondly, one Supreme Court created Birthright Citizenship out of thin air in 1982, when he wrote in the footnotes of an unrelated case that the 14th Amendment did in fact allow for Birthright Citizenship. Not coincidentally, that's the same year that Kamala Harris emigrated to the U.S.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tootall 12/2/2024 7:18:19 AM (No. 1846682)
When asked about how he dealt with illegal invaders in Mexico, FelipeCalderone, former President of Mexico said, 'We send back them!'
This should be the option. Maybe give them the chance to apply for Citizenship, if they have not committed crimes, and have something to offer. Stop benefits immediately!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
FunOne 12/2/2024 7:45:09 AM (No. 1846707)
It is both a right and an obligation of the government of any country to expel those who enter illegally.
The government of the United States will engage in this deportation in civil manner by returning them to the country that they identify as their homeland. Though the liberal media will respond as if they were all being dumped on a small, otherwise uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
3XALADY 12/2/2024 8:04:17 AM (No. 1846724)
I worked with someone from Canada who wanted citizenship. It took her 10 years and $12,000.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TurtleDove 12/2/2024 9:04:26 AM (No. 1846769)
I believe it is the law in India which states for a child to be considered a citizen at birth one parent must be a natural citizen & the other MUST NOT BE IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. That's a really good start.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kafka2 12/2/2024 9:06:38 AM (No. 1846774)
For many years, Mexican women enter the US legally to have their babies and got a US birth certificate. They went back to Mexico and applied for US citizenship based on their child’s birth certificate and were approved. This situation is not addressed in the article.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 12/2/2024 9:31:08 AM (No. 1846800)
This really needs to be absolutely the law. If an illegal drops a baby while inside the USA that should NOT have any bearing on the citizenship of that child. The fact that the mother is here illegally should absolutely guarantee no US citizenship for any child.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/2/2024 9:41:19 AM (No. 1846817)
Besides repealing so-called “birthright” citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and aliens in the USA for temporary purposes on nonimmigrant visas, it is important that counting of illegal aliens in future US Censuses not be allowed for Congressional redistricting purposes.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
felixcat 12/2/2024 9:53:25 AM (No. 1846834)
Everytime a US citizen is sentenced to serve time in local jail, state prison or federal prison system, he/she is separated from his/her children. No one whines about those family separations. If the Dems want to so cheapen what it means to be an American Citizen then leave the country and live somewhere else where the laws are more to your liking.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Namma 12/2/2024 10:45:31 AM (No. 1846865)
then stop paying Social security to these babies whose mothers cross the border, give birth and go back to their own countries
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/2/2024 10:47:15 AM (No. 1846867)
And the next thing that must be stopped in the chain migration....a family member married a woman from a foreign country and she gave citizenship to many...so-called family members for the price of gold trinkets as payment....and I saw it happen so no one can pull the wool over my eyes...I was granted citizenship abroad during WWII because my parents couldn't travel back to America...I carry my American citizenship papers with me always and all my children have copies...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/2/2024 10:49:46 AM (No. 1846869)
They should be offered to self deport and then they can apply for legal entry. If they they have to be physically deported, let them know that they will never be allowed legal entry.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/2/2024 11:15:15 AM (No. 1846886)
Whaat! Did anchor babies just get denied?!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/2/2024 11:44:36 AM (No. 1846908)
The left's interpretation of the 14th amendment is that it applies to everything they advocate.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Nimby 12/2/2024 11:51:09 AM (No. 1846915)
About time.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/2/2024 7:48:28 PM (No. 1847120)
Solve it with Logic. The Constitution specifies that the children of diplomats who born in this country while the parent is serving here on their diplomatic post. It states that those children cannot claim U.S. citizenship, period. Now, those Diplomat parents have a MUCH greater reason to be in this country than ANY illegal/invader from some hellhole country, and the Constitution nowhere deals with "asylum seekers," or victims of any sort. Those topics are the products of emotionally out of control legislators.
It also follows that every hellhole nation's enclave in the U.S. was accomplished by Democrat administrations shortly after they thoroughly BOTCHED foreign affairs with that hellhole nation. Examples being: Cuba, Somalia, Lebanon, Iran, Rwanda, Western Africa (anyplace), Arabia (anyplace).
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