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I can name my child whatever name I want, but there will not be a birth certificate. Would you know if the baby was really born from me or not?”
As she makes lists of all the baby supplies they’ll need, and picks out the colors for the nursery, she thinks We always wanted to organize our lives to have children,
Where would I even register my son or daughter’s birth?”
Most of the folks on our staff are immigration attorneys, and we have decades of experience amongst all of us. And then we have this executive order and even we think it’s unclear,
You give life to your child, but I believe they also give you the life you need, they give you strength that you never imagined you would have,
President Trump has made it clear that restoring fairness to our immigration system and defending the true intent of the 14th Amendment are central to his vision of making America great again,
Rabin said, ... WCSC reported I don't understand how the states have standing,
Biggs said, the Washington Examiner reported The executive orders are temporary. Passive legislation is permanent, right, so I would like to codify a lot of his executive orders into law,
Miller said, the Examiner reported The Wong Kim Ark case affirmed that birthright citizenship is universal, that it applies to even the most disfavored immigrant groups,
said Amanda Frost, a professor of immigration and citizenship law at the University of Virginia who is an expert on Wong’s case The real story behind Wong Kim Ark’s case is the collaborative action by the Chinese community,
said David Lei, a San Francisco-based historian and board member of the Chinese Historical Society of America It’s cutting off the possibility that a community can ever become American,
For us as a nation, ... birthright citizenship is so vital both as a way of erasing – or trying to erase – the vestiges of slavery and acknowledging we’re a nation of immigrants where every child is born under the same status.”
I strongly believe that Donald Trump is correct, that we need to enforce the 14th Amendment as it was originally intended,
Spakovsky told Fox News Digital The problem with birthright citizenship is it gives rights as an American citizen to individuals who have absolutely no loyalty to and no connection to the U.S. government, our culture, our society,
The 14th Amendment has two key clauses in it. One, you have to be born in the United States, but you also have to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. All those who push birthright citizenship just point to that first phrase and ignore the second,
That means that children born of aliens who are in this country, and it doesn't matter whether they're here legally, illegally, as diplomats; if their parents are foreign citizens when they are born they are citizens of their parents' native land, they owe their political allegiance to and are subject to the jurisdiction of those native lands, not the United States. So, they are not citizens of the U.S.,
[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” are citizens
The 14th Amendment, as approved and written, states the following
