From the Article:
” It is difficult to imagine that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended to confer the boon of citizenship on the children of illegal aliens when they explicitly denied that boon to Indians who had been born in the United States.
Those who defy the laws of the U.S. should not be allowed to confer such an advantage on their children. This would not be visiting the sins of the parents on the children, as is often claimed, since the children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. would not be denied anything to which they otherwise would have a right. Their allegiance should follow that of their parents during their minority.
A nation that cannot determine who becomes citizens or believes that it must allow the children of those who defy its laws to become citizens is no longer a sovereign nation.
No one is advocating that those who have been granted birthright citizenship be stripped of their citizenship. Equal protection considerations would counsel that citizenship once granted is vested and cannot be revoked; this, I believe, is eminently just.”
Low Info Voter: yeah. And speaking of the Indians, that team name is raaaaaaaaaaaacist!
Well, I’m advocating “stripping” citizenship from those who have no right to it whatsoever, and I think a whole lot of other people feel the same way. What do they mean “no one” is advocating this?
Yes, indeed. And we saw Carly defending the constitutional-amendment claptrap tonight on Fox, and she’s as obviously wrong as O’Reilly. EVERYthing hinges on the unparenthetical clause, “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Illegal aliens cannot possibly confer U. S. citizenship on their U. S.-born children simply by birthing them here. Not even LEGAL visitors to the U. S. (students, diplomats, foreign consultants, you-name-it, WITH VALID U. S. VISAS)can confer U. S. citizenship on their U. S.-born children! Is it possible that there’s some clause in the Monroe Doctrine that confers this privilege exclusively to south-of-the-border western hemisphereans? If so, the 14th Amendment failed to incorporate it.
Levin’s going to be talking about this on Hannity tonight. I HOPE he’s able to set that network straight.