PaintMyHouse
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- #241
Doesn't matter a damn, they dealt with that, and ignored it. Besides why would that matter? Oh right, it doesn't.The parents both had legal visas. They wren't illegals.United States v. Wong Kim ArkCite the court case?If the baby was born here, it's American. Deal with it, the Supreme Court did, more than 100 years ago.Yes, states being unconstitutional, great idea...
You must have missed this part.
the link...
"But local officials, which issue birth certificates registered by the Texas Department of State Health Services Vital Statistics Unit, told the women they would no longer accept either the matricula consular, which is a photo ID issued by the Mexican Consulate to Mexican nationals living in the U.S., or a foreign passport without a current U.S. visa. Undocumented Central American women are also being turned away because they only have a passport without a U.S. visa. “They are locking out a huge chunk of the undocumented immigrant community,” says Harbury"
Guess you need a visa. If you're an illegal you won't have one.
125 years ago they said Indians are American citizens under the 14th but not illegal newborns
In the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that a person who
becomes, at the time of his birth, a citizen of the United States by virtue of the first clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
- is born in the United States
- of parents who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of a foreign power
- whose parents have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States
- whose parents are there carrying on business and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity of the foreign power to which they are subject
Birthright citizenship in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia