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12-17-2005, 06:17 PM
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Re: Born in the US but not American?
There is a proposal to amend the constitution for this? Silly.
If you are born in the US, you are a US citizen. If someone is seriously proposing this, it will go nowhere. Not only would it not go anywhere absent the constitutional provision, but the enhanced requirements of a constitutional amendment would make it absolutely dead in the water. 
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12-17-2005, 06:22 PM
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Re: Born in the US but not American?
[ QUOTE ]
There is a proposal to amend the constitution for this? Silly. If you are born in the US, you are a US citizen. If someone is seriously proposing this, it will go nowhere. Not only would it not go anywhere absent the constitutional provision, but the enhanced requirements of a constitutional amendment would make it absolutely dead in the water. [/ QUOTE ] I'm not so sure. I responded to sirio in the mexican wall thread with this poll . It seems to me that the majority of Americans are pretty upset about illegal immigration and if you get rid of that loophole as well as increase enforcement, you would reduce the amount of illegals.
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#3
12-17-2005, 10:57 PM
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Re: Born in the US but not American?
I don't know if I'd call the first sentence of the 14th Amendment a loophole...
Even if there are a lot of people upset about it, it takes a lot more than a majority to amend the constitution.
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