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    Gov. Haley balances 2016 immigration tightrope

    By Andrew Shain/The State
    12:59 PM, Sep 27, 2015

    S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley shared the stage this month with six Republican presidential candidates who question the constitutional amendment that made her a U.S. citizen on the day that she was born in Bamberg.

    Immigration — including allowing automatic citizenship for children born in the United States, so-called “anchor babies” — has become a central issue in the campaign for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.

    That puts Haley, a rising GOP star and possible vice presidential pick, in a delicate spot.

    Haley’s parents were Indian immigrants who did not become U.S. citizens until after her birth in 1972. Her father, Ajit Randhawa, became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1978, Haley’s office said. Her mother, Raj Randhawa, became a U.S. citizen in 2003, a year before Haley won a seat in the S.C. House.

    Haley, as governor of the state with the South’s first presidential primary, is a pivotal figure in the GOP race, where most of the 15-candidate field opposes birthright citizenship.

    She co-hosted a forum with 10 GOP White House hopefuls on Sept. 18 in Greenville, including a half-dozen who have said they want to re-examine the 14th Amendment, which gives automatic U.S. citizenship to children of immigrants who are born in this country.

    Opponents of birthright citizenship at the forum were: retired Maryland neurosurgeon Ben Carson; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky; former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania; and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who also was born in the United States to Indian immigrants who were not yet U.S. citizens.

    Two other Republican presidential candidates who were not at the Greenville forum —front-runner Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Haley ally — also have questioned birthright citizenship.

    “I want you to be attached to America on our terms, not yours,” Graham said on a Fox Business interview last month.

    The anti-birthright GOP hopefuls complain about undocumented immigrants having babies in the country as well as foreigners who travel to the United State to give birth so their children will become U.S. citizens.

    Haley has said that she favors controls on undocumented immigrants, noting her parents came to the United States legally.

    "The governor believes the nearly 150-year old constitutional guarantee of citizenship to children born in America has served our country very well and should continue for those who enter our country legally,” Haley press secretary Chaney Adams said.

    “While she appreciates discussion of the issue of birthright citizenship, she believes it's one that distracts from the serious problem Washington politicians, including members of Congress and presidents, have for years failed to address, and that's illegal immigration. Once we get illegal immigration under control, the citizenship question will be a non-issue, as it was for most of the last 150 years.”

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    “While she appreciates discussion of the issue of birthright citizenship, she believes it's one that distracts from the serious problem Washington politicians, including members of Congress and presidents, have for years failed to address, and that's illegal immigration. Once we get illegal immigration under control, the citizenship question will be a non-issue, as it was for most of the last 150 years.”
    No, the citizenship question will not become a "non-issue", because you can't get the illegal immigration problem resolved without solving the citizenship question concerning children of illegal aliens. Trump is smarter than all these other politicians which is why he sees and knows that it starts with the citizenship problem that ties parents here illegally to their anchor baby.

    At some point, leaders have to put their "desires" for high public office aside, and think of the people of this country first, even if it means you may not get to be Vice President or in Jindal's case, President. Also, under the US Constitution, a natural born citizen, eligible for President is by all definitions a person both in the US on our soil to 2 parents who are also US citizens, including naturalized citizenship, but citizens nonetheless.

    Children born elsewhere, children born here to immigrants or illegal aliens who are not citizens at the time of birth are not eligible under the US Constitution to be President of the United States. That's why neither McCain nor Obama are eligible. That's why Ted Cruz isn't eligible.

    I laugh at the Constitutionalists who whine about religious liberty and religious persecution who want to be President of the United States while waving a document around during campaigns for President when under the document they're waving, they aren't even eligible for the office to begin with. You know, the ones who claim US Supreme Court Rulings aren't "law" when they don't agree with them.
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