Birthright Citizenship
Birthright Citizenship is the liberal falsehood of asserting that anyone born in the United States is automatically an American citizen, even if born to parents who are illegal aliens or otherwise not lawfully and permanently in the United States. This practice is based on a liberal misreading of the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868), which reads, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside" (emphasis added).
Children of illegal aliens and other foreigners here on merely a temporary basis are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States permanently, just as children born on military bases and in foreign countries to American citizens are not permanently subject to foreign jurisdictions. The purpose of the amendment was to ensure that former slaves were granted full civil rights, including the right to vote. Given this context, the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" can reasonably be interpreted to mean that children born here to foreign citizens are citizens of the countries of their parents, not the United States.[1]
Children born to foreign diplomats while in the United States do not thereby become American citizens. American Indians were not granted citizenship by the Fourteenth Amendment, but rather by the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
In 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court cited the Fourteenth Amendment in the citizenship case of Wong Kim Ark, an American-born ethnic Chinese whose immigrant parents were permanent legal residents of the United States, although not naturalized as citizens. The vote was 6 to 2.[2]
Some 380,000 children are born in the United States each year to illegal-alien mothers, according to U.S. Census data.[3] A 2017 Congressional Budget Office report estimated that 4.5 million anchor babies lived in the U.S.[4] – even greater than the number of children born in the U.S. every year.[5]
No law exists that forbids the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from deporting the illegal-alien parents of children born in the U.S.
References
- ↑ https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/donald-trump-end-birthright-citizenship-by-executive-order/
- ↑ The holding is, "A child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China but have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States and are there carrying on business and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
- ↑ Anchor Babies NumbersUSA.com
- ↑ Binder, John (December 26, 2017). CBO: At Least 4.5M Anchor Babies in U.S. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ↑ Binder, John (December 28, 2017). Anchor Baby Population in U.S. Exceeds One Year of American Births. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
