Illegal immigrants ignore jurisdiction

The Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
August 29, 2010
By Chuck Tatum

In Congress in the 1980s, amnesty was granted to 2.5 million illegal aliens as part of a compromise to close loopholes in immigration laws. Employers of illegals would suffer severe fines and possible imprisonment.

Unfortunately, only the amnesty of illegals was real.

The laws have not been enforced because the liberalist politicians need votes to stay in office.

Even though they take an oath to "support and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic," they choose to only protect themselves at the sacrifice of the Constitution and the rule of law.

Congress must immediately pass the following:

Citizenship shall not be granted on the basis of an illegal act. This will make the 14th Amendment more clear. It currently has two requirements for citizenship: All persons born or naturalized in the United States; and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

It is clear that a pregnant female who enters the United States illegally for the purpose of having the baby born in the United States is not subject to the jurisdiction thereof!

It is clear that all babies born under such illegal circumstances are not citizens.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is wrong to grandfather these pawns of criminals.

America clearly welcomes legal immigrants, but we are a nation of laws - although the federal government seems to have well forgotten that.

Consider the absurdity of the wife of an ambassador to the United Nations or other foreign diplomat gaining citizenship for her newborn.

Diplomats are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

They and their families have "diplomatic immunity."

Those who enter the United States illegally are also not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

By their actions they reject that jurisdiction!

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