Politics: Huckabee wants to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens?
The guy who won the Iowa Republican primary is driving right to the basket with this position:
 Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate — a radical step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.
Mr. Huckabee, who won last week’s Republican Iowa caucuses, promised Minuteman Project founder James Gilchrist that he would force a test case to the Supreme Court to challenge birthright citizenship, and would push Congress to pass a 28th Amendment to the Constitution to remove any doubt.
I don’t think this position is radical at all. I consider myself a moderate on the issue of illegal immigration, but I have never agreed with the idea that someone can deliberately break the law, but still get their kid declared a citizen. That just encourages illegal immigration. I heatedly agree that the Constitution needs to be changed, either through an amendment or a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning its previous decision that the 14th Amendment applies to the children of people in the United States illegally.
Believe me, this is going to play very well in middle America.
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Although I am not necessarily a Huckabee fan I do agree with his policy on not allowing free citizenship to children born here to illegal immigrants. I don’t believe it is our job to pass out free citizenship when others have to earn it. Also, we are being forced to pay for these children from the time they are conceived right on through birth and school. Health care to these parents before the child is born. Free hospitalization for the birthing. Free follow up child care. Free schooling, free housing, free food stamps, etc. We are paying for it all. This means we are paying them to come here and be illegal.
Would be interested to see the death rate of unborn children who die as a result of their mothers crossing the border at the 11th hour in order to deliver in the US.
What if we just removed the parental rights of these illegal alien parents?
I am looking forward to being deported back to Ireland for being descended from my paperless, uninvited, largely unwelcomed, ancestors who arrived in the 18th century or even my German ancestors from the 1820s.
“removed the parental rights”
That effectively is already happening as the government deports the parents, while the children are shunted into the foster care network.
Mahkno sez: “the government deports the parents, while the children are shunted into the foster care network.”
I sez: You serious? I don’t see a lot of this in the foster care system, but I only see a small piece of the system.
Huckabee just told Wolf Blitzer he DID NOT say that.
If that ever became policy can you imagine the logistics? Having to prove citizenship when you give birth? And what if one parent is legal and the other is not?
BJ – Of course he says he didn’t say that. He always does. It’s part of his strategy. Appeal to the large bigotted fundie-conservative voting bloc one day, appeal to the sane moderate voter the next.
But hey, at least he’s not Giuliani. He tells us that the soul of freedom lies in… unquestioningly submitting to authority? What?
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