bttt
Liberals are always whining that we need to be more like Europe. Well OK then, here you go.
does ANY country?
Emulating Europe is not, generally speaking, a good barometer for US action.
And, in this case, it’s not even necessary. One need only read the Amendment, which includes the proviso that US born requires the person be ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’, in order to be accorded birthright citizenship.
Illegals are certainly not under such jurisdiction; Justice Brennan aside.
Oddly, although I have never been to Europe, due to two Irish born grandparents, I have the right to take up Irish citizenship, get an Irish passport, and live anywhere in the EU. Yet nowhere in the EU is foolish as to grant anchor baby citizenship.
Looks like political regulator folks are favoring old Roman law more every year.
http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp445-e.htm
CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT
AND CURRENT ISSUES
Prepared by:
Margaret Young
Law and Government Division
October 1997
Revised August 1998
[...]
APPENDIX A
BIRTH ON A COUNTRY’S SOIL:
THE LAW IN SELECTED COUNTRIES(44)
Most people gain their citizenship at birth by means of one of two main legal systems. The first is the British common law system, under which citizenship is obtained by virtue of the place of birth — jus soli — regardless of the citizenship of the parents. The second is the tradition based on Roman law, which gives primacy to the citizenship of the parents — jus sanguinis, regardless of where the child is born.(45)
[...]
FRANCE(46)
A child born in France will or may acquire French citizenship if:
the parents of the child are unknown and remain so until the child comes of age (18);
the child would otherwise have no citizenship;
the parents of the child are foreign but resided in France in the five years prior to the child’s reaching the age of 18.
THE UNITED KINGDOM(49)
Britain removed automatic citizenship by reason only of birth on British soil in 1981.
A child born in the U.K. is a British citizen at birth, or may register as a citizen later, if:
either of the parents is settled in the United Kingdom;(50)
the child is a foundling;
the child spends the first ten years of life in the U.K.;
the child is adopted by a British citizen by order of a British court;
one of the child’s parents becomes a British citizen or becomes settled.
bkmk
Yes... in this case, we are the ONLY idiots!