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Across Texas, 60,000 babies of noncitizens get U.S. birthright08:59 AM CDT on Sunday, August 8, 2010
"They're violating our law, and we're giving their children the benefit of U.S. citizenship," said state Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, whose 2009 bill in the Legislature would have challenged the birthright of immigrant children.
That bill died in committee, although Berman has vowed to file another version next year that would prohibit the state from issuing birth certificates to the children of "illegal aliens."
"I've checked the Congressional Record for when the 14th Amendment was written, and the author was quoted as saying that it did not apply to foreigners," he said. "There's no question in my mind about it."
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/d...
I hope he is right and the 14th do not need amending but correctly applied. The mistake may have been trying to change the 14th and it did not need changing.
"They're violating our law, and we're giving their children the benefit of U.S. citizenship," said state Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, whose 2009 bill in the Legislature would have challenged the birthright of immigrant children.
That bill died in committee, although Berman has vowed to file another version next year that would prohibit the state from issuing birth certificates to the children of "illegal aliens."
"I've checked the Congressional Record for when the 14th Amendment was written, and the author was quoted as saying that it did not apply to foreigners," he said. "There's no question in my mind about it."
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/d...
I hope he is right and the 14th do not need amending but correctly applied. The mistake may have been trying to change the 14th and it did not need changing.