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Fact Check
Whatever the merits of changing the rules of birthright citizenship, Randy Terrill’s much-quoted comment about invading armies is a total political red herring, and needs a quick fact check.
First, does the Oklahoma Republican seriously suggest that the U.S. will be subject to invasion any time soon - an invasion so prolonged that the occupying army will settle down to procreate?
Second, an invading army wouldn’t be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States - a primary point of the 14th Amendment. No jurisdiction, no citizenship. Also, U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) essentially says that children of agents of a foreign power employed in an official capacity aren’t citizens, despite jus soli doctrine.
Unless we’re attacked by a foreign army, and unless the Supreme Court completely throws out an important clause in the Constitution, we shouldn’t fret much about the children of invading armies becoming citizens.
As for the “Anchor Baby” baby law. It was never meant for illegal alien females who intentionally scorn our sovereignty laws. No illegal alien child, should gain the rights given to a citizen, as the law was intended for newly released slaves—after President Lincoln executed the Declaration of Emancipation at the end of the Civil. war. It needs to be filed with the Supreme Court, for their re-evaluation of 14 Amendment, as this law is been misinterpreted and should be revised. This la as it is is costing taxpayers for every “Anchor Baby” and family that is adjoined Billions of Taxpayer dollars every year. Once here the system is corrupted by these females attaching themselves like parasites to food stamps, Section 8 housing, prenatal carewelfare benefits and ordinary cash. Just like the Child Credit scam that is being extracted from US taxpayers according to Ed Rubenstein, the author of “The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the United States – and the most illegal-immigrant friendly.”