Levin: 'Completely False' That Children Born to Illegals Have Constitutional Right to Citizenship
Here is a transcript of what Mark Levin had to say:
“Birthright citizenship: I have discussed this a few times in my radio career – I think 2009. Maybe it was 2010. I think once or twice since then. And unfortunately, I had to watch on TV, while I was in California, some so-called experts tell us – and former Bush appointees, and a former superior court judge in New Jersey tell us – that the Constitution embraces birthright citizenship, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. Well that, of course, is completely false.
“And I don’t know why people who call themselves Constitutionalists swerve back and forth, lurched from the Constitution to Supreme Court decisions, and back and forth. First, let’s figure out what the Constitution says.
“And I see our senior legal analyst friend – and he is a friend of mine, Napolitano – is all over the place. And he’s wrong, as are many other so-called experts.
“I’ve actually spent my life on the Constitution. I wasn’t a superior court judge in New Jersey. I wasn’t a professor for doughnuts and coffee at Shmegegge University or what have you. And this is one of the areas I have poured over, over the decades.
“And yet nobody did a better job at explaining this than Professor Edward Erler, who I’ve talked about over the years. And he’s a professor at California State University. He is also at
The Claremont Institute, a senior fellow there. But more than that, he happens to be right. And he testified before a subcommittee of Congress many years ago, almost 20 years ago. And he set forth the case.
“Now, he’s not the only one:
Professor Thomas West has; Lino Graglia has,
professor at University of Texas School of Law School. But even more than them, the framers of the Constitution set forth the basic law. And then we have, after the Civil War, three amendments to the Constitution – the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth – called the Civil War Amendments. And we know pretty much what occurred.
“Professor Erler was testifying. He said, ‘It’s my considered opinion, Congress has the authority, under Section Five of the Fourth Amendment, to define the jurisdiction of the United States [of the Fourteenth Amendment, of course]. Indeed, it is my contention that Congress has exercised that power on many occasions, most recently in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, and I would say they also exercised it with the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.”
“He points out, ‘Senator Jacob Howard … .’ You are now going to know more than anybody else, ladies and gentlemen. You know, one of the things I find when I sign books, and it’s good to do it because I get to talk to so many of you, people say, ‘Mark, your show is different because you really get into the substance.’ Now, we have fun. Don’t get me wrong. We do our thing too. But we do get into the substance. It’s one thing to say, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously the Constitution doesn’t provide that.’ That’s not enough. That’s not enough. So when you’re in a debate format or a political format or a classroom format or this format, you need to back it up, and that’s what we do here. We back it up.
“Senator Jacob Howard, the author of the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment – he spoke – he told us what he meant. He defined who would fall within the ‘jurisdiction of the United States.’ Ready?
“‘Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, [meaning the states – their jurisdiction] is, by virtue of natural law and national law, a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great issue in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.’
“Mr. Call Screener, Mr. Producer, you understand that, right? Is it not plain English? Is he not as clear as can be, that it does not include aliens, it does not include foreigners, it does not include families or with ambassadors or foreign ministers?
“So, the author of the citizenship clause intended to count foreigners, aliens and those born to ambassadors, foreign ministers, as outside the jurisdiction of the United States. That’s Senator Jacob Howard. He knew, as his reference to natural law indicates that the republican basis for citizenship is consent – consent of the country.
“You can’t self-immigrate. You can’t claim jurisdiction because you happen to walk into the United States.
“Senator Lyman Trumbull, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a powerful supporter of the Fourteenth Amendment, remarked on May 30, 1866, that the jurisdiction clause includes those ‘not owing allegiance to anybody else … It’s only those persons who come completely within our jurisdiction, who are subject to our laws, that we think of making citizens; and there can be no objection to the proposition that such persons should be citizens.’ Now this was familiar language.
“The Civil Rights Act of 1866 defined citizens of the United States as ‘all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed.’ ‘Not subject to any foreign power.’
“It is universally agreed that the immediate impulse of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment was to constitutionalize (constitutionalize) the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was an attempt to put the question of citizenship and matter of federal civil rights beyond the reach of simple congressional majorities. Thus, it was clear, the idea of allegiance, ‘not subject to any foreign power,’ was central to understanding the jurisdiction clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
January 10, 2011
By: James Walsh
Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the
cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education,
healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or
more politically correct, “undocumented immigrants”) with ties to Mexican drug
cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the
southern border.
While the declining job market in the United
States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal
aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as
drug-smuggling “mules.”
SHOULD AMERICA PAY
MEXICANS BILLIONS TO BREED THEIR ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE?
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
ALONE PUTS OUT ONE BILLION DOLLARS YEARLY IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS. IT’S THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY’S LA RAZA BREEDERS FOR WELFARE PROGRAM TO ANCHOR AND EXPAND
MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE IN OUR OPEN BORDERS AND BUY THEIR ILLEGAL VOTES!
Sen. David Vitter is renewing his call to change
the law
so that U.S. citizenship is no longer
granted automatically as a result of
being born on
American soil.
He
said Obama's ultimate motivation is to turn "Hispanics into a monolithic
voting bloc that will loyally vote for Democrats." King claimed that
Obama's executive amnesty is a "purely cynical move" that seeks to
document "undocumented Democrats" while dividing Republicans and
fracturing "our constitutional republic" and the rule of law. ------- REP. STEVE KING
JEFF SESSIONS on the OBAMA ASSAULT on the
AMERICAN (Legal) WORKER:
“The President is providing an estimated 5 million
illegal immigrants with social security numbers, photo IDs, and work
permits—allowing them to now take jobs directly from struggling Americans
during a time of record immigration, low wages, and high joblessness.”
“The
President’s plan also calls for boosting foreign worker programs for IT
companies that experts tell us displace U.S. workers and keep wages low,”
Sessions said. “The President’s unconstitutional action is a direct threat to
our Republican system of government and will have catastrophic consequences for
the American people. It must be stopped. And the way to stop it is by using
Congress’ power of the purse.”
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!
It started the day Obama moved into the
White House and commenced the perpetration of his “hope & change”.
24,639,000: Record Number of Foreign-Born Hold Jobs in
U.S.
"We could cut
unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal
workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the
Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the
American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help
citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than
fail to enforce immigration laws."
The Employment
Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the Second Quarter of 2013
Income
inequality grows four times faster under
Obama than Bush
…. we bankroll Mexico's welfare state in our borders as the number of
Americans (Legals) sink into poverty! Illegals also get all the jobs!
The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great
Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently
reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a
striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present
crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity
program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social
inequality.
REPORT: ALIEN NATION
How the American people permitted
the U.S. tax supported Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race” invade,
occupy and loot America.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/corporations-funding-mexican-fascist.html
Giving Illegals Access to Welfare
‘An Assault on the U.S. Taxpayer,’ Researcher Says
Robert Rector
of The Heritage Foundation
70% of all invading ILLEGALS end up on welfare. Getting
an American job with a stolen social security number is NEVER and issue!!!
“The share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a
child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very
high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of
education and their resulting low incomes — not their legal status or an
unwillingness to work. . ."
Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will
Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'
what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add
it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the
MEXICAN now operate in 2,500 American
cities!
COMING
FOR OBAMA’S AMNESTY, ANCHOR BABY WELFARE AND U.S. JOBS…
Nearly a MILLION more…..
Mexicans
jumped America’s open borders this year.
THERE
ARE NOW 40 MILLION ILLEGALS IN OUR COUNTRY,
JOBS AND WELFARE LINES!
POPULATION SURGE
MEXICO DOUBLES THE
POPULATION OF AMERICA, FILLS OUR JOBS, PRISONS AND WELFARE OFFICES AND VOTED DEM FOR MORE!