Thread: Children of Foreign Diplomats Enjoy U.S. 'Super Citizen' Sta

Report: Children of Foreign Diplomats Enjoy U.S. 'Super Citizen' Status
By Elizabeth Robichaux Brown
Published July 11, 2011
| FoxNews.com






EXCLUSIVE: The Founding Fathers and drafters of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution may just turn over in their graves if they read a new report by the Center for Immigration Studies that says foreign diplomats are obtaining U.S. birth certificates and Social Security numbers for their newborn children – effectively becoming U.S. citizens. On top of their new status in the world, these children carry an additional perk that most Americans do not have – diplomatic immunity.

Just like their parents, most are immune to criminal jurisdiction of the United States, creating what CIS describes as a “super citizen.â€

Birthright Citizenship for Children of Foreign Diplomats?
Limiting Language in the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause Has No Practical Effect

By Jon Feere
June 2011
Jon Feere is the Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies.

The intended scope of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause has been hotly debated in the context of children born to illegal immigrants. While it appears unlikely that the intent of those who authored the 14th Amendment was to ensure automatic citizenship for children born to illegal and temporary immigrants, some argue that the amendment protects such grants of citizenship.1

Amid this debate, however, there is one area of solid agreement among advocates on all sides of the debate: In the least, children born to foreign diplomats are not “subject to the jurisdictionâ€

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