Birthright Citizenship changes coming?
November 21, 2005 by Conservative Culture
Filed under General
In response to illegal immigration, the US House of Representatives is seeking to change the Constituation’s 14th amendment that grants American citizenship to any child born on the nation’s soil.
In an Op-Ed piece by the Washington Times noted that the problem about birth place and jurisdiction have been misued to misrepresent the framers intent.
But since the 1898 Supreme Court ruling, United States vs. Won Kim Ark, American courts have elevated birthplace over jurisdiction and allegiance. This has persisted to the present, to the point that last year, in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court granted full citizenship protections to Yaser Esam Hamdi, a Taliban fighter captured in Afghanistan who happened to have been born in Louisiana while his Saudi father had been working on a project for Exxon.
Last week I had raised this question along with Conservative Voice, concerning automatic citizenship for all including children of illegal immigrants. We will be watching any development on this topic.
Conservative Culture » Conservatives attack birthright citizenship on Mon, 12th Dec 2005 11:12 am
[...] In late November there was a headline entiled “Inheritance At Stake.” We mentioned that Birthright citizenship changes were needed in light of illegal immigration. [...]
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[...] It is important to clarify the fourteenth amendment in light of MSM (mainstream media) articles which were commented on this site here and here. [...]
Julia Gomez on Tue, 14th Feb 2006 7:37 pm
I pay my taxes, I am currently attending college, I donate blood, I do community service, I am a teller at a well known bank ????I am an ???anchor baby??? and proud citizen of the United States I am a Mexican-American
Just though you should know