Posted on 08/20/2015 5:45:46 AM PDT by yoe
Mark Levin appeared on The Hannity Show last night to discuss the anchor baby law which is distorting our immigration law. The majority of the American people don’t want it but no one is stopping it. In under five minutes, he proves that the 14th Amendment does not include illegal immigrants.
The author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan, expressly said: “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.”
Mark Levin said this removes all doubt as to what this clause meant.
Levin said that it’s because they are deliberately misinterpreting the Constitution. Moreover, the Supreme Court has never ruled that illegal aliens are American citizens.
The clause reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Levin said it is being interpreted as a matter of geography but it had nothing to do with geography, but political allegiance to the United States of America. We know that because they said it and they also excluded people the left and some Republicans want to include.
There is good news.
Article I, Section 8 clause of the Constitution says “the Congress shall have the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization.” In other words, Congress – not the courts, ICE, the president – has the power to regulate immigration in this regard.
We don’t have to amend the Constitution, those who are saying it covers illegal immigrants have to amend the Constitution.
Levin is brilliant. He’s also radio talk show host and they have to explain things with minimal verbiage. Long winded, dull hosts don’t last long in radio.
The “anchor baby” doctrine will outlive everybody on this board, and their great grandchildren.
After seeing the way that they tortured language in the two Obamacare cases, do we REALLY expect that SCOTUS is ever going to concur with Levin?
Is there the slightest doubt how they will rule?
I listened to Levin yesterday. He was brilliant. I wanted to phone this in:
***So, if Prince William & Kate had been visiting the US and prince George had been born prematurely in an American hospital - one day he becomes King of England and then decides to run for POTUS!!!!!!!
What irony..... King George - ruler of the World!!!!!!!***
Not in my mind, it’s open and shut. The 14th is clear; it was never meant, nor has it ever been ruled, to require birthright citizenship for the children of non-citizens.
We are so screwed.
Here's what burns me...would it have been so hard to put the above in bold in the actual wording of the amendment? If that'w what you meant, why not put it in there? What...were they trying to save on ink?
O’Really brought up a 9185 SCOTUS ruling that made the children of Illegals, citizens. And said anyone who says otherwise is insane. So I guess Canada is insane.
Bill O’Reilly did a “wonderful job” claiming the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anchor babies with Andrea Tantaros. Andrea is a total babe, but not qualified on this issue. BOR won’t discuss with Levin or Coulter because he will be toast.
no it won’t, it will be gone by mid 2017, unless either the party of the democrat steals the election or they kill Donald John Trump.
Phone it in!! Keep trying!!
Oriley is an asses ass.
The other stuff is a waste of time, money, and is at best just mental gymnastics for people who have way to much time on their hands and are not focused on the reality of the moment in which we now find ourselves.
Actually, it may turn out to be a bad thing that only Congress can establish a rule of naturalization. Even if Trump/Cruz win the presidency, they would still have to contend with all the amnesty lovers in Congress; meanwhile, if a liberal wins the WH, they will simply grant unconditional amnesty via executive order, and the country’s worthless academics and enforcers would support that action.
While that's important, one can't lose sight of another Constitutional tenet which does necessitate the President's involvement - Article 1, Section 7, Paragraph 2
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
Since one Congress cannot dictate the acts of a subsequent Congress, you can bet the next democrat Congress will naturalize all illegals with a stroke of the pen. Voting rights will be instantly extended and the population will be upturned. This is a argument we might not appreciate winning.
Original intent of the 14th Amendment
For those REALLY INTERESTED I recommend the discussion in that article of the 1889 Supreme Court case: Wong Kim Ark that is used by the Libs to justify the current Born in the USA = Citizen of the USA ruling.
The applicability or non-applicability of this case to our current situation hinges on the issue of legal versus illegal immigration. The article argues that the intent of the Wong Kim ARk ruling was to insure that citizenship would be awarded to the children of legal immigrants. It was never intended to apply to the children of people who sneak over our border.
I saw Carly Fiorina being interviewed on this subject yesterday. She completely eviscerated any possible perception of herself as a true conservative by her answers. She is a conservative poseur, nothing more. She had me fooled for a short period and I was erroneously thinking of her as possibly being a good running mate for Ted Cruz.
A very good case could be made that if a child of William and Kate were born here, that child would automatically hold dual citizenship. Of course, William and Kate would renounce or refuse to accept the US citizenship for their child.
Look no further than Ted Cruz for that. Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father and an American mother. Until recently, Cruz held dual citizenship. He renounced his Canadian citizenship and now holds sole US citizenship.
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