Is it sensible that a child, born to a foreign ambassador is NOT granted citizenship but a known illegal is?
Why did they keep repeating it? Because so many in Congress voiced outrage that the wording might be interpreted to grant citizenship to babies born to aliens.
How could the Extreme Court think the Congress meant to grant citizenship to tiptoe-in-the-shadows illegals and deny to kids of known representatives of friendly governements? They HAD the record, read what had been said, but indicated they were not allowed to consider it. The minority opinion insisted they DID have the power to consider extraneous writings if they clearly explained the intent of the law.
Answer:
The Supreme Court has never ruled on whether the child of a person ILLEGALLY here is a citizen. [That was a case about legal resident workers working here at a time when Chinese were not allowed to naturalize.] In fact, there is a judicial 'fiction' that a person who is in the country but has not yet been granted access (at border clearings, etc.) is technically NOT "in the country" at all. I would be interested in seeing how that and the equitable principle that the law will assume 'that which should have been done had been done' when the plaintiff benefits from acting improperly apply to this situation.
The question is if they are only here in VIOLATION of our laws, how can they also be 'under jurisdiction of our laws'? Our laws, were jurisdiction exercised, would deport them.
Be that as it may, if they do become citizens, the law needs to be changed. It was not written in a time of subsidized services for children and the poor here being raided by foreigners.
go to www.numbersusa.com- it is all about immigration.
Do you ever wonder if you, yourself, are a citizen? Did your great-grandparents have a citizenship certificate? Since there was no immigration service back then, I assume they didn't have one, which makes you an illegal.
Go back to your country, *****. No one likes illegals.
learn the truth. every nlation has the same laws for diplomats. they are also not subjecto criminal laws and taxes or tickets while in the usa. go to ww.gpoaccess.gov or www.firstgov.gov to learn the truth. the supreme decision are there.
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