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To: bvw
There are few more basic tenets in the U.S. Constitution than this: If you're born in the U.S., you're a citizen.

Uh, like where in the Constitution is this Anchor Baby Statute?

16 posted on 02/17/2010 12:08:45 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: FormerACLUmember
Uh, like where in the Constitution is this Anchor Baby Statute?

14th Amendment as amended and interpreted by SCOTUS. The key is the clause "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

28 posted on 02/17/2010 12:36:39 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Roll back Pelosi" Rush Limbaugh, 2/12/10)
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