rescind the citizenship of anchor babies
aiding and abetting illegal aliens is a crime
grant no new amnesties
.
We must overturn the
misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. The Constitution grants citizenship to all persons
born or naturalized in the United States and
. An illegal alien mother is subject to the
jurisdiction of her country. The baby of an illegal alien mother
also is subject to that home countrys jurisdiction.
When the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, its purpose was
to assure rights of freedom and citizenship to newly emancipated
Negro citizens. American Indians, however, were excluded from
American citizenship because of their tribal jurisdiction. Also not
subject to American jurisdiction were foreign visitors,
ambassadors, consuls, and their babies born here. For citizenship,
the person was required to submit to complete, exclusive American
jurisdiction, owing allegiance to no other nation.
Long ago the Supreme Court correctly confirmed this restricted
interpretation of citizenship in the so-called Slaughter-House
cases [83 US 36 (1873)] and in [112 US 94 (1884)].
In , the phrase subject to its jurisdiction
excluded from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and
citizens of foreign states born within the United States. In , the
American Indian claimant was born in America, but considered not
anAmerican citizen because the law required him to be not merely
subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United
States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction and
owing them direct and immediate allegiance. To obtain
citizenship, an American Indian had to separate from his tribe and
be accepted by the United States as a citizen. A special act of
Congress was needed to grant full citizenship to American Indians.
The CitizensAct of 1924, codified in 8USCS§1401, provides that:
The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United
States at birth:
(a) a person born in the United States and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof;
(b) a person born in the United States to a member of
an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal
tribe
.
Congress by legislation has the right to create uniform rules on
naturalization, and to create dual citizenship and similar variations
upon jurisdiction. We must be vigilant against congressmen
voting to extend the list of those born here to include illegal aliens
or other lawbreakers, conferring American citizenship and its
generous social and medical benefits on babies born to criminals. It
is irrelevant that some lawbreakers are hard-working women
willing to do hard jobs for low pay, or that they are wives,
daughters, cousins, lovers, or concubines of men willing to do
Americas hard work.
Gravid wombs should not guarantee free
medical care and instant infant citizenship in America. We must
reestablish the original limits on citizenship, and remove incentives
for indigent Mexicans and others to break Americas immigration
law. Proud legal immigrants applaud order, reason, and law.
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