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[AltDaily] If You Read the Paper | Fri Aug 13 | AltDaily : Creating and ...: Republicans love calling themselves “strict constitutional constructionists” except when the Constitution reveals itself as insufficiently xenophobic or authoritarian, as in the case of the Fourteenth Amendment. This amendment was adopted in 1868 in part to overrule the atrocious Dred Scott decision which declared that blacks couldn’t be citizens.

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Schaller's Law of ...: The American Prospect was arguing against the Amendment as proposed by Gingrich in 1993, which apparently had significant and serious flaws. Shrinkers argument at least has the benefit of making a more general argument which even responds to the criticisms I was going to post of the critique I would have written about the AP article.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Critics of illegal immigration have long accused migrants - particularly those coming from Mexico or Latin American countries - of giving birth to children in the United States in hopes that their babies' citizenship will keep them in the country as well as to avail their children of the more generous benefits of the wealther United States.

[Cynthia Tucker] The US needs those babies born to illegal moms | Cynthia Tucker: As Kotkin writes, “In the next decades the fate of western countries may well depend on their ability to make social and economic room for people whose origins lie outside Europe. The United States, Canada, Australia, Britain, Germany, and France produce insufficient new children of European descent to prevent them from becoming granny nation-states by 2050.”

[Political Animal] The Washington Monthly: "A bill to curb criminal activity by aliens, to defend against acts of international terrorism, to protect American workers from unfair labor competition, and to relieve pressure on public services by strengthening border security and stabilizing immigration into the United States."

[Gateway Pundit] Barack Obama's Latest Crackpot Claim: “Islam Has Always ...: If one parent is not a US citizen then they until recently had to choose their nation of citizenship at age 18, at which time they became naturalized citizens in exactly the same way as someone who immigrated here. In both cases, there are naturalization papers that clearly state “not eligible for the US Presidency.”

[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] Birthright citizenship - to hell with the Constitution! | The ...: He rests much of his argument on the writings of Professor Lino Graglia of the University of Texas law school, who maintains that an 1884 Supreme Court decision about children born to Native American parents established that “no one can become a citizen of a nation without its consent.” Well, that is pretty obvious ”” and the 14th amendment grants birthright citizenship.

[Now and Then: an American Social History Project blog] Nativism, Naturalization, and Birthright | Now and Then: an ...: The very idea of “illegal” immigration came into being only when the federal government passed the Page Act in 1875, which denied entry to Chinese and Japanese prostitutes, felons, and contract laborers (also known as “coolies”). (Seven years later, Congress passed the more sweeping Chinese Exclusion Act.) Before that, Congress had been silent on the question of who could immigrate to the U.S. The question of who could become a naturalized citizen was first established in 1790, when the Naturalization Act provided that any “free white person” residing in the U.S. for two years was eligible for citizenship.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Open Thread: “A Sort of Missouri ...: The Republican war on the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause is indeed directed at a mortal threat””but not to the American nation. It is the threat that Latino voting poses to the Republican Party.

[tor.com / frontpage] Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Heinlein ...: IIRC there's a section of A Tramp Royale, written around 1950, in which Heinlein comes out very strongly against the contemporary Jim Crow laws and all the other apparatus of segregation, saying that African-Americans (he used the word "Negroes" of course) were and should be treated as full citizens of the United States; anything less would be a shameful renunciation of the true spirit and purpose of the nation.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Don't know (or care) if Obama wears woman's underwear, may not have gotten drunk at inaugural ball, but he does like "beer summits." He did have record funds for his campaign, bu none of that is relevant to the fact he has only offered a document Hawaiian law calls a "verification in lieu of certified copy." The Constitution says nothing of barring rich kids, drunks or cross dressers from the Presidency, but it does bar non-US native born persons. All it takes to silence the 25%, who bothered to know the facts of how an Hawaiian law was enacted in 2001 creating a "similitude" document instead of a "certified" copy, is to present a certified copy of his birth certificate.

[Crooked Timber] Citizenship One-Upmanship ”” Crooked Timber: NomadUK@5, Australia has in the last 10 years stripped people of citizenship or deported permanent residents in such a way as to effectively render them stateless, because although they have another citizenship they do not speak the language of that country and have never lived there. In one famous case a serial criminal slept on the steps of the Australian embassy in Croatia, I think, and protested for months, because he had been deported to his “country of origin,”

[Travel News As It Happens] Travel News As It Happens » Blog Archive: By John O'Connor South Carolina Democrats called on Alvin Greene to end his bid for US Senate after his legal troubles got more serious Friday, but there is not much hope among party leaders that Greene will abandon his long-shot campaign.

[Thepeoplesmovies's Blog] TIFF 2010: Canadian Films in Festival Line Up Annouced ...: Toronto - The Toronto International Film Festival announces a wealth of Canadian features including highly anticipated new works by acclaimed Canadian filmmakers Denis Villeneuve, Bruce McDonald, Xavier Dolan, Jacob Tierney, Louis Bélanger and William D. MacGillivray, Sturla Gunnarsson, Ingrid Veninger, and Carl Bessai and on screen appearances by Molly Parker, Jay Baruchel, Don McKellar, Scott Speedman, Jill Hennessy, David Suzuki, Martha Plimpton, Peter Stormare, Jennifer Beals, Emily Hampshire, Jean Lapointe, Guylaine Tremblay, Harvey Keitel, Jason Jones, Scott Caan, Tricia Helfer and the late Tracy Wright.

[ParentDish] Opinion: We Hate the Children of Illegal Immigrants ... Why ...: Henderson, don't encourage the illegals (yes, that means their children, dragged over the border or spit out here) of this country to expect more than they're already getting--and DON'T DESERVE--just because a child who was too young to make an informed decision as to whether or not to break the law--because their lawlessness is KILLING AMERICA as we know it. And I, for one, would like a better life for MYSELF and MY FAMILY, too, and that starts with NOT HAVING TO SUPPORT ILLEGALS AND THEIR ANCHORS.

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