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14th Amendment Abuse
Posted by Raven on January 31st, 2006
Rep. Tom Tancredo has written an excellent Guest Ed here, about birthright citizenship. I agree with him all the way on this…
Currently, the U.S. grants citizenship automatically to every person born in our country, except children of foreign diplomats. That includes legal permanent residents, temporary visitors, nonimmigrants and illegal aliens.
Obviously this creates a tremendous incentive to rush into the country to birth children. We’ve seen the millions who risk their lives and spend their savings for the chance to work in this country, let alone gain citizenship. And for those in line for American citizenship, the wait can be as long as 18 years.
Once an alien crosses our borders and gives birth to a child, her entire family gets to cut in line. This is because our immigration laws give an automatic path to citizenship to family members of citizens. Having a so-called anchor baby in the U.S. gives foreign families a direct shot at citizenship they would not otherwise have.
So there is no incentive for doing things the right way. When you’ve been on a waiting list that long I imagine you would lose interest. It’s not fair and it’s not right.
But the United States is not just a geographical entity, and American citizenship was never meant to simply be a marker of one’s location of birth. We are a nation of ideas as well as land and we have a proud history, common standards and shared values of individuality and freedom.
The Left’s obsession with multiculturalism has done enough to crack America’s melting pot. Children are taught that our country and our values are no better than others. New immigrants are discouraged from assimilating; they’re told to keep their linguistic, cultural and political ties to the countries from which they came. We have gone a long way toward emptying American citizenship of any meaning.
Yes, and we wonder why today’s young and upcoming are so selfish; they who put their own needs before those of their country- they don’t have that national pride. The left is working hard to remove that pride and turn it into national shame.
The 14th amendment wasn’t meant to become what it is today. People use this law as an excuse to enable shamelss illegals to do what they do…
Contrary to some legal pundits, the 14th Amendment does not mandate automatic citizenship for persons born on U.S. soil. The Constitution�s operative language is, �All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the Unites States.
From the Heritage Center:
Before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, citizens of the states were automatically considered citizens of the United States. In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision had held that no black of African descent (even a freed black) could be a citizen of the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment was thus necessary to overturn Dred Scott and to settle the question of the citizenship of the newly freed slaves. The Fourteenth Amendment made United States citizenship primary and state citizenship derivative. The primacy of federal citizenship made it impossible for states to prevent former slaves from becoming United States citizens by withholding state citizenship. States could no longer prevent any black from United States citizenship or from state citizenship either.
How we went from this original intent to where we are today is one of those mysteries only a leftist could unravel. Through the years our heritage has been clouded over, lied about, misrepresented…twisted, turned into something it shouldn’t be.
The US is only one of a handful of nations that allows this practice to occur-automatic citizenship. Most other modern nations don’t allow this because they saw the abuses we are seeing now. The bleed hard lefties will always have a counter argument to this- after all, we are a nation of immigrants right?? YES…LEGAL imigrants.
Some resources:
FAIR: Anchor Babies- The Children of Illegal Immigrants
Illegal Immigration Costs CA 10.5 BILLION annually
CAIR: Alien Birthright Citizenship: A Fable That Lives Through Ignorance
February 1st, 2006 at 12:17 am
But why is the phrase “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the Citizenship Clause enclosed within a pair of commas with the first comma placed before the coordinating conjunction “and”?
The 1866 Civil Rights Act was enacted two months earlier by the same 39th Congress that sponsored the 14th Amendment (with the Citizenship Clause in section 1), and the Act provided a similar clause:
“All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States.”
Note the missing comma before the coordinating conjunction “and” in the phrase “and not subject to any foreign power.”
What was the GRAMMATICAL reason for omitting the comma in the Act and placing the pair of commas in the Citizenship Clause by the same 39th Congress?
Note that the original draft of the Citizenship Clause by the author reads:
“All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The words “or naturalized” was inserted (without debate) a week later (08 June 1866), after the author’s original Draft was debated and approved 30 May 1866.
March 31st, 2006 at 2:40 pm
We must restore this great country to what it was founded on – character, innovation, and freedom.
What is happening today with immigration is sickening. There is no respect for the enforcement of the rule of law.
I am the son of a LEGAL immagrant and I say I am AMERICAN not hyphen-American, just AMERICAN.
The needs of the few do not and should not outway the needs of the many.
GOD BLESS OUR GREAT COUNTRY!!!!