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Uh, no. I don't think anyone has a problem with citizens of Hispanic descent or legal immigrants of Hispanic descent. It is the illegal kind that is a problem. They give birth on our soil after breaking our immigration laws and that entitles them to all kinds of benefits for their kids. Our taxes also cover the birthing of these kids because most don't have health insurance. I suggest you read up about the billions they and their anchors are costing us.
FYI illegal immigrants actually pay most kinds of taxes.
They are US citizens because the US constitution says they are.
No, they aren't. The 14th Amendment has never been clarified by the Supreme Court and it needs to be. How do you explain the clause " AND subject to the jurisiction, thereof"? If everyone born on our soil were automatic citizens by birth there would have been no need to put that qualifer in the clause. You have to be born here PLUS subject to our jurisdiction. Why in the world would the writers of the 14th Amendment include births from illegal immigrant parents who are not subject to our jurisdiction and their offspring likewise? They are only accountable/subject to our laws just like a legal immigrant or citizen would be while living here.
Uh, no. I don't think anyone has a problem with citizens of Hispanic descent or legal immigrants of Hispanic descent. It is the illegal kind that is a problem. They give birth on our soil after breaking our immigration laws and that entitles them to all kinds of benefits for their kids. Our taxes also cover the birthing of these kids because most don't have health insurance. I suggest you read up about the billions they and their anchors are costing us.
You obviously have a problem with latino citizens otherwise you wouldn't feel the need to single them out. No matter who your parents are, if you are born in the US, you are a full US citizen. There are not different classes of citizenship.
FYI illegal immigrants actually pay most kinds of taxes.
No, not most. They pay sales tax but most are low wage earners whom many actually get more back in income taxes than they pay into the income tax fund through Child Tax Credits if they have kids and there is alot of fraud involved with that also. Some get paid under the table also and don't pay income taxes. They don't pay anywhere's near in taxes what they take out of our tax coffers. Their social costs are breaking us.
Oh, stop spinning the truth. The truth is that most illegal immigrants are Hispanic. However, I don't want any illegal immigrants here regardless of their ethnic makeup.
Except you are complaining about Hispanic US citizens, not illegal immigrants.
No, they aren't. The 14th Amendment has never been clarified by the Supreme Court and it needs to be. How do you explain the clause " AND subject to the jurisiction, thereof"? If everyone born on our soil were automatic citizens by birth there would have been no need to put that qualifer in the clause. You have to be born here PLUS subject to our jurisdiction. Why in the world would the writers of the 14th Amendment include births from illegal immigrant parents who are not subject to our jurisdiction and their offspring likewise? They are only accountable/subject to our laws just like a legal immigrant or citizen would be while living here.
That might be your opinion, but no court has ever agreed with your view of birthright citizenship. The US Constitution as it is currently interpreted grants automatic citizenship to people born in the US.
You might wish that it didn't but your wishes don't match up with the current law.
FYI illegal immigrants actually pay most kinds of taxes.
When I visited the UK this summer we paid taxes. I wouldn't think of staying there illegally.
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