There is a movement to end the automatic citizenship to babies born in the US of foreign parents. This message is meant for them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#Birth_within_the_United_States Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "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." In the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that a person becomes a citizen of the United States at the time of birth, by virtue of the first clause of the 14th Amendment, if that person is: Born in the United States Has parents that are subjects of a foreign power, but not in any diplomatic or official capacity of that foreign power Has parents that have permanent domicile and residence in the United States Has parents that are in the United States for business The Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled on whether children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents are entitled to birthright citizenship via the 14th Amendment,[5] although it has generally been assumed that they are.[6] A birth certificate (a.k.a Certificate of Live Birth for children born in certain states) issued by a U.S. state or territorial government is evidence of citizenship, and is usually accepted as proof of citizenship. This is the decision to end slavery that was misused to invent “anchor babies”. In 1898 the SCOTUS ruled anyone born in the USA is a citizen, as long as their parents aren’t foreign diplomats. In the spirit of a “live Constitution”, the Court later decided to ignore and/or misinterpret the red highlighted words above, assuming anybody born on sovereign US soil was automatically a citizen of the USA , parentage be damned. Before the Court decision, “jurisdiction” was understood to mean limited to the country of the nationality of their parents. That’s why they didn’t have to distinguish between diplomats and all others. It’s very much like if a married couple went to the Canadian side of Niagra Falls for their honey moon, and they have child in Canada , he/she is not a Canadian citizen. The New Born is a citizen of the USA because he is under the jurisdiction of his U.S. parents. With this said, overturning a Supreme Court ruling made over a century ago, is improbable, if not impossible. The course of action at this time is to pass another amendment to distinguish between a child of US parents and those of a non-citizen. It would be easier to write a new Constitution. One last thought. The decision does not make a foreigner's new born a “natural born citizen” eligible to become President. Contact Your Govt http://www.usa.gov/Contact.shtml Is the Constitution the Supreme Law of the Land or not? I GUESS THE SCOTUS HAS ANSWERED THAT QUESTION Patriot Freedom http://www.patriotfreedom.org/battlefield.php If a link above does not work, cut-and-paste to your browser. Please be aware that Barack Hussein Obama’s grandfather was a highly respected witch doctor with the Luo tribe. His white grandmother was VP at the Bank of Hawaii and she worked with and for Peter Geithner on other projects, Peter is the father of Timothy Geithner, Obama's choice of Treasurer of the US. We the People http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE This email is archived at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en I'M MAD, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/07/05/im-mad-as-hell/ . -- To join RichsRants, send email to: [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en
