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To: HighlyOpinionated

I am all for it, but, will take an ammendment to the constitution wouldn't it?

15 posted on 10/20/2005 5:15:24 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)

To: Ursus arctos horribilis; HighlyOpinionated

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1354318/posts
Bill would deny U.S. citizenship to children of illegal immigrants

19 posted on 10/20/2005 5:28:54 PM PDT by WatchingInAmazement (You can’t tell someone much about a boxing glove until it hits them in the face.)

To: Ursus arctos horribilis

but, will take an ammendment to the constitution wouldn't it?

No, only a decision from the SCOTUS

The US Constitution addresses the issue ("under the control of") and the only Supreme Court decision that tangentially involved the issue, interpreted the clause to exclude the children of illegal aliens from "automatic citizenship" in its published findings that supported its ruling on a closely related matter.

The court has never directly ruled on the issue. Had Governor Gray Davis not let California's appeal of a federal district court ruling die on the vine in 1999 the SCOTUS probably could have been forced to revisit the earlier commentary.

28 posted on 10/20/2005 8:37:05 PM PDT by Amerigomag

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