Thread: Born Free?

Born Free?
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Story Published: Jun 6, 2008 at 5:59 PM PDT

By Heather Reese

A local Democratic blog asked us to look into an issue recently approved by State Republicans. The party's 2008 proposed platform says children born in the U.S to illegal aliens should not be citizens.

Republicans argue the 14th Amendment actually supports this provision. They say the original intent of the 14th Amendment was to recognize the citizenship of ex-slaves, not to grant citizenship to children born to illegals. The local Republican party chair says he's not strongly opposed to making this law.

But blogger Ron Bonlender, a Democrat, says changing our constitutional rights is not an option.

"There's abuses but you don't change the constitution you address the abuses in other ways," Bonlender said.

It takes two-thirds vote of each house to pass a bill, should this become a bill. The State Republican party will send 40 delegates to its National Convention in September.


http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/19620094.html

It's not chaniging the constitutuion. It is clarifying it. It was never meant for illegal immingrants coming over here just to have babies. It was for children of slaves. Illegal aliens weren't even a consideration when this was written. IF they had been around then, it would have been written more clearly to exclude them.

But blogger Ron Bonlender, a Democrat, says changing our constitutional rights is not an option.



Wrong. It is an option and must be done. And it probably will be done sooner or later. It must be clarified. This has been abused for too long. This amendment must be reworded to say what it was meant to say. Not the distorted version we have now. This is one of the most widely abused loopholes in the Constitution.
People like to define our "constitutional rights" to suit their own agendas.

But blogger Ron Bonlender, a Democrat, says changing our constitutional rights is not an option.

The Fourteenth Amendment was a change to the Constitution which is the purpose of Constitutional Amendments. The Amendment is being abused by illegal aliens for a purpose not intended.

The clarification should be retroactive to a certain time.

Can anyone tell me what other country allows babies born in their country automatic citizenship?