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Oh pleeez!! It does and you know it does!! It is used as a tool to sway public opinion in their favor! "Oh the evil government is breaking up those poor Hispanic families!!"
"They are tearing that baby from the arms of it's mother!" Etc...etc......
No, just no. I'm not sure if you realize this, but there are options between "grant citizenship to anyone who has a child here" and "break up families."
Should children be put out on the street if their parent don't pay the rent or mortgage??
Unfortunately children often suffer the consequences of their parent's foolish actions!
A child goes fatherless because his dad murdered a man is now in prison!! Child suffer....sad but true.
The parent should not have come in illegally. THEY BROKE THE LAW! The child belong to the parent! ALL SHOULD GO!
The bright side to that is that they will all still be together!
I think the bright side in your mind is that they'll all be somewhere you don't have to see them. If togetherness were really your concern, you would favor a different approach.
We all know what the current intepretation (although wrongly interpreted) of birthright citizenship is, that isn't the issue. The issue is getting it re-interpreted by the Supreme Court and if necessary making an amendment to it so that at least one parent has to be a citizen in order for their newborn to qualify for instant citizenship.
As for the term anchor baby, the parents "think" they will be granted stay here at some time in the future because they have a U.S. citizen baby. It also anchors them unto our welfare system for the same reason.
lol "wrongly interpreted".
Please show us your infallible book of Constitutional Interpretation that outlines the RIGHT way to interpret it.
Or, just explain why "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States" is being interpreted incorrectly?
Not a bad idea at all. Lets see how much they really luv this Country over their own Country. Actually a pretty decent idea.
I would oppose this idea, but if it were to happen, it should apply to EVERYONE that is born here. That is, NOBODY gets citizenship just by being born.
Now, under this set of rules, how many of the "deport em all" crowd would make the cut?
Oh pleeez!! It does and you know it does!! It is used as a tool to sway public opinion in their favor! "Oh the evil government is breaking up those poor Hispanic families!!"
"They are tearing that baby from the arms of it's mother!" Etc...etc......
In other words, you don't care what the facts are, you're just going to keep telling the same bogus story.
We all know what the current intepretation (although wrongly interpreted) of birthright citizenship is, that isn't the issue. The issue is getting it re-interpreted by the Supreme Court and if necessary making an amendment to it so that at least one parent has to be a citizen in order for their newborn to qualify for instant citizenship.
As for the term anchor baby, the parents "think" they will be granted stay here at some time in the future because they have a U.S. citizen baby. It also anchors them unto our welfare system for the same reason.
1. Could you explain, please, why the exact language of the amendment is a wrong interpretation? Are you one of those judicial activists we hear so much about?
2. Is that what the parents think? And you know this how, exactly? You're aware that illegal aliens don't get welfare benefits, right?
So then you agree that the "my great grandpa came here legally, therefore nobody else has any excuse" line is bogus, right?
My original comment was focused on illegal immigration, in saying that "jumping in line" or "sneaking in line" is an incorrect term. Illegal immigrants don't "jump in line" (there is no "line"), nor do they gain any identical immigration status that a Legal Permanent Resident (aka "legal immigrant") would have. Maybe something like "jumped the process" can be used instead, by anyone that just can't let go that illegal immigrants are somehow gaining a status they shouldn't have.
I've already addressed the "legally like my ancestors" perspective before. In the absence of a specific law, something cannot be identified as either "legal" or "illegal". It doesn't have any context to say indigenous tribes 400 years ago hunted deer "legally". They have their societal norms for other areas in place at the time, just no regulation on the hunting of game animals.
Even when applied to an immigration depot like Ellis Island (starting operations in 1892, and inundated within a year), immigration for Western European was not in a context of being "legal" or "illegal". Were immigrants landing at other ports or borders able to get in (perhaps even "sneaking") without any processing or permissions? You betcha. Did it impact them later to become a citizen if they wanted? Not at all.
If you can find a particular ancestor going through Ellis Island (an average of 4 hours of processing, with medical screenings being a matter of seconds, and known to be bypassed by fraud) it means nothing to how they may have gained their U.S. citizenship later...
It's a wholly different context, and I expect the regulars reading this to not use the terminology further...
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1. Could you explain, please, why the exact language of the amendment is a wrong interpretation? Are you one of those judicial activists we hear so much about?
2. Is that what the parents think? And you know this how, exactly? You're aware that illegal aliens don't get welfare benefits, right?
1. No, because it has all been explained in here before and in fact just recently by Liquid Reins. Search the topics.
2. Since amnesty keeps being promised the parents think that having a U.S. citizen child will give them leverage to be first in line for an amnesty. They get welfare benefits through their U.S. born children and you know it.
My original comment was focused on illegal immigration, in saying that "jumping in line" or "sneaking in line" is an incorrect term. Illegal immigrants don't "jump in line" (there is no "line"), nor do they gain any identical immigration status that a Legal Permanent Resident (aka "legal immigrant") would have. Maybe something like "jumped the process" can be used instead, by anyone that just can't let go that illegal immigrants are somehow gaining a status they shouldn't have.
I've already addressed the "legally like my ancestors" perspective before. In the absence of a specific law, something cannot be identified as either "legal" or "illegal". It doesn't have any context to say indigenous tribes 400 years ago hunted deer "legally". They have their societal norms for other areas in place at the time, just no regulation on the hunting of game animals.
Even when applied to an immigration depot like Ellis Island (starting operations in 1892, and inundated within a year), immigration for Western European was not in a context of being "legal" or "illegal". Were immigrants landing at other ports or borders able to get in (perhaps even "sneaking") without any processing or permissions? You betcha. Did it impact them later to become a citizen if they wanted? Not at all.
If you can find a particular ancestor going through Ellis Island (an average of 4 hours of processing, with medical screenings being a matter of seconds, and known to be bypassed by fraud) it means nothing to how they may have gained their U.S. citizenship later...
It's a wholly different context, and I expect the regulars reading this to not use the terminology further...
You know damned well that when we use the term "jumped ahead of the line" that it does mean they "jumped the process". I don't know why you like to nit-pick when you know what we mean. None of us ever claimed that by doing so that they gained some sort of legal status.
Wrong! In absence of a law then something is not illegal but legal. How things were done back in the Ellis Island days is totally irrelevant to today's lawfull way of entering our country. Why you continue to bring up past immigration is beyond me.
Joking about physically attacking human beings? People act like I'm nuts when I say certain people think of illegals as sub-human.
are you implying that the parents wouldn't be on the other side waiting to catch them?
that's just sick.
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