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Think Nazi pogroms and Soviet purges --- Think it can't happen here? --- Think again MAJ Montgomery Granger LTC (Join to see) LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Gregory Prickett CPT Jack Durish LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
The Citizenship Clause Means What It Says
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Donald Trump
Constitution
Citizenship
Immigration
Bill of Rights
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The 14th Amendment never imagined anchor babies, but it did imagine not extending citizenship to children born here of diplomats who are in the US legally. There is no logical case then for unlawful visitors or tourists to give birth to a US citizen simply by virtue of location.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
It's already been decided. See United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898).
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In 1898’s Wong Kim Ark decision, the Court ruled that a man born in the U.S. to Chinese-immigrant parents was a citizen, as were “all children here born of resident aliens.” That still doesn’t settle the question of illegal aliens.
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MAJ Montgomery Granger
Indeed. Resident implies legality. Unlawful persons in the US have no standing, and can even be denied habeas corpus. How then can an infant assert rights to which it is not entitled?
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You guys ever stop to think he's just giving the Left another serious wedgie? And it's worked again!
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SFC Pete Kain
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