Category: Birthright Citizenship
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Media Outlets Claim Constitutional Amendment Needed to Cease “Birthright Citizenship”
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 9, 2024) — On Sunday’s “The Big Weekend Show” on the Fox News Channel at 7:00 p.m. EST, co-hosts Dr. Nicole Saphier, Anita Vogel, Jason Chaffetz and Johnny Joey Jones reacted to President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s lengthy interview with Kristen Welker of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” particularly regarding his comments on abolishing…
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“Eligibility” Censorship on Full Display at YouTube
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 16, 2024) — On or about August 4, 2024, Zach DeGregorio, host of the program, “Wolves and Finance,” uploaded a video to his YouTube channel titled, “Who is Kamala Harris?” which, among other things, questioned whether Harris is a “natural born Citizen” as required by the U.S. Constitution for the president…
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‘Citizen at Birth’ Term vs ‘natural born Citizen’ Term: Grammatical and Logical Analysis
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2024 (Aug. 9, 2024) — First, let us put on our thinking hat and do some simple grammatical analysis of the two terms ‘Citizen at Birth’ (“CAB”) and ‘natural born Citizen’ (“nbC”). The first term, “CAB”, tells the reader simply WHEN the person became a…
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End U.S. Citizenship Crisis
by Jonathan David Mooers, ©2023 (Jul. 29, 2023) — [The following was sent Friday, July 28, 2023 to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL1), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH4), additional members of the House and Senate, Florida Gov. and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis (R) and others in response to Gaetz’s bill filed last week with…
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The Gestation of Birthright Citizenship, 1868-1898: States’ Rights, The Law of Nations, and Mutual Consent | by Bernadette Meyler | Cornell Law School
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at CDRKerchner (Mar. 10, 2022) — This paper on Birthright Citizenship was brought to my attention by a researcher and key excerpts are herewith shared. You can get a copy and read the full paper here: Some excerpts with key words and phrases added with bold type…
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Mexican Governor Gives Birth to Dual-Citizen Baby on US Soil
by Allan Wall, US Incorporated, ©2022 (Jan. 27, 2022) — Marina del Pilar Avila Olmeda is the governor of the Mexican state of Baja California. Avila and Olmeda are her two last names, as per the Spanish surname custom, but I’ve seen her referred to in Mexican media as Marina del Pilar. Governor Marina del…
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U.S. Senator Claims “Birthright Citizenship” Renders Harris Eligible
TERMS PARENTS IN U.S. ON STUDENT VISAS “IMMIGRANTS” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 19, 2020) — Former Marine and Pennsylvania citizen Jeffrey Harrison reported Saturday that he received a response from one of his U.S. senators, Pat Toomey, regarding Harrison’s concern that California senator and Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris does not qualify for the position…
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Constitutional Educator Offers Sample Presidential Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship
WAS THE PRACTICE CONSTITUTIONAL TO BEGIN WITH? by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 5, 2018) — Following the October 30 publication of a clip of President Donald Trump’s interview with media outlet Axios, politicos on all sides immediately debated his assertion that congressional action is not necessary to declare “birthright citizenship” an illegitimate policy. “Birthright citizenship” is…
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The Post & Email Interviews Atty. Mario Apuzzo on the 14th Amendment, Part 2
“THERE’S NEVER A FINAL WORD” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 28, 2018) — On Monday, The Post & Email published Part 1 of an interview with New Jersey attorney Mario Apuzzo focusing on the ongoing debate about the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship provision. Apuzzo has taken on complex citizenship cases in his decades-long career…
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The Post & Email Interviews Atty. Mario Apuzzo on the 14th Amendment, Part 1
CAN “BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP” BE ABOLISHED BY ANY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 27, 2018) — Last week, an article at Salon.com came to our attention whose focus is the 14th Amendment and so-called “birthright citizenship.” Passed in 1868 during Reconstruction, the constitutional amendment contains five sections, with Section 1 being the most familiar…
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Birthright Citizenship and Judicial Incompetence
WAS THE CASE OF WONG KIM ARK DECIDED IN ERROR? by Jim Delaney, blogging at Opinerlog (Mar. 26, 2011) — Mindful of the litany of revisionist case law since the Constitution’s ratification, it is clear that stare decisis is a judicial principle fraught with constitutional perils. Why? One corrupted court ruling inevitably leads to another,…
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Birthright Citizenship: Ideology vs. Rule of Law
THE POLITICAL MISREADING OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT by Jim Delaney (Aug. 15, 2010) — We’ve all heard the stats: currently, only the United States grants birthright citizenship to illegal aliens, and 8% of babies born in the US are so-called “anchor babies” born of illegal aliens. In and of itself, this doesn’t constitute a crisis,…
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Birthright Citizenship is in the News
IS “JUS SOLI” ENOUGH TO CONFER CITIZENSHIP? by Sally Vendée (Apr. 20, 2010) — Recently, three articles on Birthright Citizenship (“Anchor Babies”) have been featured on prominent news sites: (1) The Washington Post, George Will: “An Argument to be Made About Immigrant Babies and Citizenship (March 28, 2010) (2) ABC News, Devin Dwyer: “A New…
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Birthright Citizenship-ers, Dual Citizenship-ers, and Birth-ers
THE MARCH OF “ER” by Sally Vendée (Mar. 10, 2010) — Going with the new trend of adding “-er” to the end of terms describing groups of people with similar beliefs ungrounded in commonly-accepted reality, we need to add Birthright Citizenship-ers and Dual Citizenship-ers to the mix, along with the Birth-ers. The reason to group…