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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8335)3/31/2005 4:56:23 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
The Citizenship Reform Act of 2005

By Chris Kelly
March 30, 2005 05:10 PM

Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA) recently introduced H. R. 698, the "Citizenship Reform Act of 2005" (report here). It seeks to prevent the children of illegal aliens from automatically being declared U.S. citizens.

Earlier this month, the San Diego Union-Tribune editorialized against the bill in "Bill of wrongs" (reader responses here). The SDUT editorial includes this bit:

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...Actually, it's not enough to say that this bill would simply deny U.S. citizenship. Since the people impacted are already citizens under current law, what this legislation really intends to do is to revoke one's citizenship...
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Actually, that's wrong. The bill won't revoke anyone's citizenship, it will simply prevent future children of illegal aliens from being declared citizens. The full text of the bill includes this at the end:

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(c) Effective Date- The amendments made by this section shall apply to aliens born on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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In other words, the bill isn't retroactive. If you've read otherwise either in the SDUT or elsewhere, perhaps you should reconsider the reliability of the source.

(Note: it bears pointing out that if the bill passes children born to illegal aliens would not be stateless. They would have citizenship, it just would be of the country of their parents. That's the procedure followed by almost every other country.)

michellemalkin.com
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