Praising Arizona (In Border Battle)

Immigration: Arizona moves to protect its citizens from a raging border war, and the administration and its activist supporters cry racism. Why is antelope protection more important than protecting American lives?

The wording in the 14th.amendment that is misquoted and used to justify citizenship for “anchor babies” is the word “subject. The word “subject “ can have two different meaning. One meaning is a “citizen” of a nation and the other “accountable” to the nation. Senator Howard clearly stated his meaning of the word “subject “ A child born in the United States AND to parents(SUBJECTS) who have alligiance TO THE U.S.(JURISDICTION THEREOF) is automatically a citizen. The new WORDING being used is that the word “subject” only refers to the child being accountable to the laws of the jurisdiction. The supporters of “anchor babies” are replacing a 19th century word with a 21th century meaning. This is like saying everyone born in the 1890’s were homosexual because it was refered to as the ‘Gay Ninethies’ ( Gay meant happy in 1890). IN the Wong kim Ark case the court granted citizenship to a child whom parents had LEGALLY IMMIGRATED( this is considered the start of alligiance) to the U.S. but were not yet citizens. Kim was declared a Native born Naturalized citizen. The “anchor babies’ supporters use this case but omit the fact that Ark’s parents had LEGALLY IMMIGRATED to the U.S. and thus set up allegiance to U.S. as required by the 14th. amendment. Anchor babies ae not born with any alligiance to the U.S. and thus not U.S. citizens.

That mis-interpretation of the meaning of the 14th Amendment to justify making anchor babies US citizens looks like it’s ripe for a court challenge to me.

Best wait until we’ve got a better class of federal judges first, though.

Thanks for the clarification. Much appreciated.

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