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Post by avordvet on Nov 1, 2018 16:00:35 GMT -5
Author of 14th Amendment: ‘Removes All Doubt as to What Persons Are or Are Not Citizens’By Craig Bannister, October 31, 2018 3:53 PM EDT Today, debate is raging in Congress over whether or not the 14th Amendment grants automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens born on U.S. soil – but, the author of the amendment said its intent couldn’t be clearer. On May 30, 1866, Sen. Jacob Howard (R-Michigan), the author of the amendment's language, gave a speech on the Senate floor explaining its meaning and declaring that that the amendment “settles the great question” and “removes all doubt” about citizenship: www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/author-14th-amendment-removes-all-doubt-what-persons-are-or-are-not-citizens
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Post by avordvet on Nov 3, 2018 17:43:25 GMT -5
The 14th Amendment Does Not Mandate Birthright CitizenshipBy Andrew C. McCarthy, November 3, 2018 3:30 AM It was about removing vestiges of slavery, not regulating aliens. Shortly after the Constitution went into effect, the first Congress enacted a naturalization law. Lawmakers superseded this statute just five years later. Both provisions derived from the Constitution’s grant to the legislature (in Article I, Section 8) of the power “to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.” That grant, along with these naturalization statutes of 1790 and 1795, edifies us about the Framers’ conception of citizenship, and of the status of aliens and their children. Status questions about the children of aliens have moved to the fore in recent months. Central Americans, enticed by laws that perversely incentivize illegal immigration, have sought entry en masse at our southern border. This week, with an oncoming “caravan” of migrants galvanizing President Trump’s base on the eve of the midterm elections, these questions have stoked a heated debate — with all the shopworn smears of racism and bad faith that are now staples of American public discourse. www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment-does-not-mandate/
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