Saturday, October 15, 2016

Annals of Derp: "Anchor Babies"


Wong Kim Ark, via New York Daily News. Great article, too.

Comment thread, from Mother Jones:


That "anchor baby loophole", aka the 14th Amendment.






Probably never intended to confer birthright citizenship upon the offspring of illegally present foreign nationals.






There was no such thing as illegally present foreign nationals at the time. There was literally no immigration law in the US, until the racist Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Nevertheless it was in exactly a case about a child of Chinese noncitizens that birthright citizenship was established as settled law, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898).


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