Kris Kobach doesn't want your immigrant baby mucking up his country anymore.
The Republican candidate for Kansas secretary of state held a press conference yesterday to announce that his newest sure-to-fail pet project will be to Wite-Out the part of the 14th Amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States regardless of their parents' status -- children conservatives have called "anchor babies." He also said kids should learn more civics in school. Presumably so they can repeal parts of the Constitution they don't like.
Kobach, an obsessive anti-illegal immigration advocate, says Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce asked him to look into ways to do
away with birthright citizenship. Of course, he said yes. Kobach was born
to deny rights for immigrant babies. It combines the two things the
UMKC constitutional law professor is most passionate about: people who
are here illegally and the constitution!
The part that makes
this politically difficult (besides the whole altering the Constitution
thing) is that Kobach, who says he would be down with giving citizenship
to babies with one legal parent, waited for Pearce to come to him for
help. If you're seeking rational followers, Pearce is not the guy you
want to hitch your wagon to. He says wacky
things like this:
"You can't break into somebody'scountry and think you
have the right to citizenship because you were born here."
That just makes him sound delusional. Everybody knows that recent studies have found rumors
of immigrant fetuses controlling their mothers to be largely
unsubstantiated. If Kobach really wants to angry up the blood, he should
stick to statistics. The Center for Immigration
Studies, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., says that 300,000 to 400,000 kids with illegal parents are born in the U.S. each year. That's a
lot of new citizens we're dishing out rights to.
And don't worry about a dragged out ratification process.
Kobach has
figured out a way to change the constitution without our approval. The 14th Amendment, he claims, makes Congress alone responsible for changing citizenship laws, so voters wouldn't have to approve it. What a relief.
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I can, my great grandfathers, both came from NYC to the heartland in covered wagons. Homesteaded, PAID for their land.....there was no welfare, no hospital, no ACLU, no Labor Unions...yet. We've farmed that land over 100 years. What there was...neighbor helping neighbor., (still do), Churches that helped. This generation has lost its way with the "feel good" generation. What nice thing have you done for a neighbor lately??? Do you even know their name???? My family came from England and Sweden. I'm not from either of those places, my heritage is, I'm from the USA. I know the meaning of work, charity, and kindness. Illegal aliens flooding this country to take from me....by demanding....is shameful, cowardly, and ILLEGAL. They can start from scratch like my grandparents did, build their own place in this world as those hard working people did. We are a country of laws...do it right or get out! Shameful, everyone wants it the easy way, or someone else to do all the work while they sit back and enjoy from the fruits of MY labor and those that came before.
The 14th Amendment was created for the Freed Blacks, not every illegal who wants to jump our borders to place the financial burden on the backs of Americans!
This isn't about race rather falling the very laws that made the United States a great nation!
The financial burdens they are placing on our hospitals is outrageous. My sister works at Houston Medical Center, they do NOT pay their bills AND jump at the chance to sue even though they are ILLEGAL!
The early settlers from Europe took control of a continent under no one's control. The Indians didn't stake our property and feuded with each other in some of the most barbaric ways imagineable; they were neither organized nor ingenious enough to keep the land for themselves. (By the way, as a nation of laws, we can't give out citizenship frivilously to people just for sneaking in illegally and dropping a baby.)
janice sibug of 1631 el camino real #7 tustin ca 92780 was born to an illegal alien name ligaya fabian who jumpshipped her flight at lax from germany to canada.
How many of us could locate our grandparents or great-grandparents or even great-great-grandparents' naturalization papers???? What if our grandchildren got in trouble with the law?? Would they be shipped back to Ireland, Germany, England, etc.????
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I agree with Kris Kobach.. Just because a baby is born in the USA ( even if it is just a matter of an hour or so) does not make that baby a US citizen. If so the parents are still illegal and should be deported immedeiately and the child should be put in a foster home. The Parents are using this birth as a purchase price to enter the USA. As long as we condone this practice we will continue to have a problem with illegal immagration.
janice sibug of 1631 el camino real #7 tustin ca 92780 was born to an illegal alien name ligaya fabian who jumpshipped her flight at lax from germany to canada.
Good for Kobach, someone needs to talk about the elephant in the room...but exactly what input does a Kansas resident warrant in making Arizona law?
"You can't break into somebody's country and think you have the right to citizenship because you were born here.
Isn't that exactly how the United States was founded? A bunch of illegal immigrants came in and took over from the Native Americans it belonged to.
This illustrates what is perhaps the most amusing aspect of the thought processes of Americans. They're absolutely petrified that someone is going to do to them the same things they've done to others."
Reading a book about Lincoln's Cabinet, many Irish & German legal immigrants, who became US citizens, were being denied voting rights. Freed Blacks were being denied citizenship. Only person who should be stripped of citizenship is Kobach.
"You can't break into somebody's country and think you have the right to citizenship because you were born here."
Isn't that exactly how the United States was founded? A bunch of illegal immigrants came in and took over from the Native Americans it belonged to.
This illustrates what is perhaps the most amusing aspect of the thought processes of Americans. They're absolutely petrified that someone is going to do to them the same things they've done to others.
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