HR 140 Bill to End Anchor Baby Citizenship in the US

[rangerrebew]

 HR 140 Bill to End Anchor Baby Citizenship in the US

    115th CONGRESS
    1st Session
    H. R. 140

    To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.
    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
    January 3, 2017

 

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-...-bill/140/text

[Smokin Joe]

Summary: H.R.140 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)
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There is one summary for H.R.140. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.
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Introduced in House (01/03/2017)

Birthright Citizenship Act of 2017

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider a person born in the United States "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States for citizenship at birth purposes if the person is born in the United States of parents, one of whom is: (1) a U.S. citizen or national, (2) a lawful permanent resident alien whose residence is in the United States, or (3) an alien performing active service in the U.S. Armed Forces.

This Act shall not be construed to affect the citizenship or nationality status of any person born before the date of its enactment.

Working link to the Summary: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/140?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22HR140%22%5D%7D&r=1

Link to full text:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/140/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22HR140%22%5D%7D&r=1

[Cripplecreek]

Citizenship should be automatically given to the children of people who are citizens or are in the process of legally becoming citizens.

I always assumed that citizenship was given as a family who arrived as a family but apparently not. I know a Nigerian woman who came here as a toddler with her parents. Her parents have been citizens for something like 12 years but she and her brother had to wait to become adults and apply on their own. Her parents paid a bunch of money to maintain the resident alien status of their children who now have to pay a bunch more to gain citizenship.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Citizenship should be automatically given to the children of people who are citizens or are in the process of legally becoming citizens.

Why are you conferring citizenship on people who are not even the progeny of a US citizen?

Applying for citizenship is enough to have your kids automatically become citizens?  That seems absurd.

[Fishrrman]

"HR 140 Bill to End Anchor Baby Citizenship in the US"

Even if by some slim chance this made it through both houses of Congress and gained the president's signature, it would be immediately challenged in the courts.

So... it will ultimately become the Supreme Court's decision as to whether Congress has the Constitutional authority to define the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment -- or not.

I'm going out on a limb and predict that even a "conservative Court" may be unwilling to set aside the precedent of 150 years (that being that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen). Stare decisis and all that.

So, the only way to get this changed once and for all is to change the language of the Fourteenth Amendment. This will never happen with a "divided Congress". Such an amendment can only come from an Article V Convention of the States...