This was posted by JD
The problem is that this (Fourteenth Amendment)
has been misinterpreted in recent years
(Since The Reagan Amnesty)
to mean simply that anyone born in the U.S,
under any circumstances,
is an American citizen.
This is neither the original intent of the law
nor the way it was interpreted by the courts
in subsequent decades.
Some Americans speak of birthright citizenship
as if it were an immutable law of nature.
It is not,
and most other nations do not, in fact, recognize it.
It is only a bad habit
that could be broken with a simple Executive Order.
According to estimates,
some 300,000 so-called anchor babies
are born in the United States every year
Once a mother has birthed a child on American soil,
she can then seek to obtain citizenship for herself
on the strength of the family-reunification laws.
2006-09-21
15:19:21
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